Senior Backend Engineer - Remote, OpenTelemetry

Pyyne Digital; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 127,737,000 - 255,474,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payment for contractor work

100% remote work

Argentine public holidays

Professional development & learning

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, refresh manifests, and validate telemetry end-to-end across a high-scale fintech stack while preserving full monitoring coverage during the migration.

This remote contractor role requires hands-on OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, metrics, logs, and Kubernetes familiarity, plus strong software testing and CI/CD experience.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JS/TS).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts: tracing, metrics, logs, OTel Collector configs.
• Deep cloud observability experience and migrating from legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Strong understanding of HTTP, APIs, env-based configurations, and YAML/JSON manifests.
• Skilled in software testing, debugging logs, and validating high-cardinality telemetry.
• Familiar with modern delivery workflows (Git, PRs, CI/CD).

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAMLs, env vars, and deployment manifests per architecture.
• Run unit tests and validation suites for telemetry pipelines.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis by comparing NR data with OTel outputs.
• Update dashboards, docs, and runbooks to reflect OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection/export errors and troubleshoot with platform engineers.
• Track progress, edge cases, and migration risks transparently.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

Git/CI/CD

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, refresh manifests, and validate telemetry end-to-end across a high-scale fintech stack while preserving full monitoring coverage during the migration.

This remote contractor role requires hands-on OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, metrics, logs, and Kubernetes familiarity, plus strong software testing and CI/CD experience.