Senior Backend Engineer – Remote OpenTelemetry Migration

Acciona It; Neuquén; Remote; ARS 85,158,000 - 191,605,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contractor agreement in USD

100% remote work

Job summary

Darwoft, a software factory delivering IT services globally, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, adjust manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

The role is fully remote with coordination across US/LATAM teams. Strong OpenTelemetry expertise and cloud observability background are required.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with modern languages (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts: tracing, metrics, logs, and Collector configurations.
• Experience with cloud observability and migrating from legacy platforms.
• Solid understanding of HTTP, APIs, and reading/ editing YAML/JSON manifests.
• Strong testing, debugging, and telemetry validation skills.
• Familiarity with Git, PRs, and CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML files, environment variables and deployment manifests.
• Run unit tests and validation suites to ensure telemetry is correctly generated and exported.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic vs OTel outputs.
• Update dashboards and runbooks to reflect the OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection/export errors and collaborate with platform engineers.
• Track progress and risks throughout migration.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Observability

Cloud observability

Tools

OTel Collector

Kubernetes

YAML/JSON

Job description

Darwoft, a software factory delivering IT services globally, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, adjust manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

The role is fully remote with coordination across US/LATAM teams. Strong OpenTelemetry expertise and cloud observability background are required.