Senior Backend Engineer - Remote (OpenTelemetry)

Team8; Tandil; Remote; ARS 149,026,000 - 255,474,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payments

Remote work

Argentine public holidays

Observability modernization

Professional development

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This remote, contractor role spans global teams, focusing on instrumenting applications, updating infrastructure manifests, and validating telemetry end-to-end across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

The ideal candidate has strong software engineering skills in Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript, with hands-on OTel experience and cloud observability knowledge.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with proficiency in at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts, including tracing, metrics and logs.
• Experience migrating from legacy observability platforms to modern telemetry architectures.
• Strong understanding of HTTP, APIs, YAML/JSON manifests, and cloud observability.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configs, environment variables, and deployment manifests.
• Run unit tests and validation suites to ensure correct telemetry export.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic data with OTEL outputs.
• Update dashboards, docs, and runbooks to reflect the OTEL architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection/export issues and collaborate with platform engineers.
• Track implementation progress, edge cases, and migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This remote, contractor role spans global teams, focusing on instrumenting applications, updating infrastructure manifests, and validating telemetry end-to-end across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

The ideal candidate has strong software engineering skills in Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript, with hands-on OTel experience and cloud observability knowledge.