Senior Backend Engineer (Remote) — OpenTelemetry Migration

Bluelight Consulting, Llc; Tandil; Remote; ARS 139,086,000 - 231,811,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payments

100% remote

Argentine holidays

Professional development

Referral programs

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will instrument applications, update manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech environment while coordinating with US, LATAM, and global teams.

This contractor role is fully remote, with flexible hours and a focus on technical quality, reliability, and comprehensive monitoring coverage during migration.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering with 1+ modern languages (Java, Python, Go, or JS/TS).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts: tracing, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configurations.
• Experience migrating off legacy platforms like New Relic to modern observability.
• Solid YAML/JSON manifests editing and testing.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configurations and deployment manifests.
• Run unit tests and validate telemetry outputs across backends.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis against OTEL outputs.
• Update dashboards and troubleshooting guides for the OTEL architecture.
• Collaborate with platform engineers on edge cases and risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Git & CI/CD

OTel Collector

YAML/JSON

Tools

OpenTelemetry Collector

Kubernetes

New Relic

Git

CI/CD Pipelines

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will instrument applications, update manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech environment while coordinating with US, LATAM, and global teams.

This contractor role is fully remote, with flexible hours and a focus on technical quality, reliability, and comprehensive monitoring coverage during migration.