Senior Backend Engineer — Remote Observability Migration

Bluelightconsulting; Tandil; Remote; ARS 231,811,000 - 324,535,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

100% remote work

International team

Professional development

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, update manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech environment.

You will work in a fully remote, contractor capacity with coordination across US, LATAM, and global teams. Strong English (C1) and experience with OpenTelemetry are essential for success.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with one of: Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Hands-on with OpenTelemetry concepts: tracing, metrics, logs, OTel Collector configs.
• Cloud observability experience; migrating from legacy platforms (e.g., New Relic).
• Strong YAML/JSON manifest reading and modification skills.
• Experience with testing, debugging logs, and validating telemetry data.
• Familiar with Git, PRs, and CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configs, environment vars, and deployment manifests.
• Run unit tests and validation to ensure telemetry is correctly generated and exported.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis and compare data across backends.
• Update dashboards and runbooks to reflect the OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry issues and collaborate with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Track progress, edge cases, and migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript / TypeScript

OpenTelemetry (OTel)

Git / CI/CD

APIs / HTTP

Testing & debugging

Tools

OpenTelemetry Collector

Kubernetes

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, update manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech environment.

You will work in a fully remote, contractor capacity with coordination across US, LATAM, and global teams. Strong English (C1) and experience with OpenTelemetry are essential for success.