Senior Backend Engineer - Remote OpenTelemetry & Observability

Team8; Neuquén; Remote; ARS 127,737,000 - 191,605,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payments

100% remote work

Public holidays in Argentina

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration project. You will migrate telemetry from New Relic to an OpenTelemetry-based architecture, re-instrument applications, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

This is a fully remote, contractor role with coordination across US, LATAM and global teams. Responsibilities include updating manifests, conducting tests, and ensuring continuous monitoring coverage during migration.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering in Java, Python, Go, or JS/TS.
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts and collector configurations.
• Experience with cloud observability and migrating from legacy platforms.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configuration files and deployment manifests.
• Execute unit tests and validation suites for telemetry outputs.
• Compare New Relic data with OpenTelemetry outputs to identify gaps.
• Update dashboards and runbooks to reflect the OTel architecture.
• Troubleshoot telemetry collection errors with platform engineers.

Skills

Java/Python/Go/JS/TS

OpenTelemetry

Cloud observability

YAML/JSON manifests

Software testing

Git/CI/CD

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration project. You will migrate telemetry from New Relic to an OpenTelemetry-based architecture, re-instrument applications, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

This is a fully remote, contractor role with coordination across US, LATAM and global teams. Responsibilities include updating manifests, conducting tests, and ensuring continuous monitoring coverage during migration.