Senior Backend Engineer - Remote OpenTelemetry Migration

Ox Security; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 127,737,000 - 255,474,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payment

Remote international

Argentine public holidays

Observability modernization project

Dev & referral programs

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead a critical observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This remote, globally coordinated contractor role requires instrumenting applications, updating manifests, and validating telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

You will re-instrument systems, ensure coverage, and collaborate with platform engineers on edge cases while contributing to dashboards and runbooks.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in software engineering with one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts (tracing, metrics, logs) and OTel Collector configurations.
• Deep experience with cloud observability & migrating off legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Strong understanding of HTTP, APIs, and reading/modifying YAML/JSON manifests.
• Experience with software testing, debugging logs, and telemetry data validation.
• Familiarity with modern delivery workflows (Git, PRs, CI/CD).

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update deployment manifests and environment variables to match architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validation suites for telemetry outputs to backends.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic vs. OTel outputs.
• Update dashboards, monitoring docs, and runbooks for OTel architecture.
• Troubleshoot telemetry collection/export errors with platform engineers.
• Track implementation progress, edge cases, and migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Cloud observability

Tools

Kubernetes

YAML/JSON manifests

Git

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead a critical observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This remote, globally coordinated contractor role requires instrumenting applications, updating manifests, and validating telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

You will re-instrument systems, ensure coverage, and collaborate with platform engineers on edge cases while contributing to dashboards and runbooks.