Senior Full-Stack Engineer - Observability Migration (Remote)

LeanTeams; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 127,737,000 - 191,605,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Contractor with USD pay

Remote global team

Public holidays in Argentina

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead a critical observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, adjust manifests, and validate telemetry to ensure seamless monitoring across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

You will work remotely in a global setup, coordinating with US/LATAM teams. Strong English, hands-on OTel, and cloud observability experience are required for success in this role.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in software engineering with proficiency in at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry (OTel) concepts, including distributed tracing, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configurations.
• Deep experience with cloud observability paradigms and transitioning off legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Solid understanding of HTTP, APIs, environment-based configurations, and reading/modifying complex YAML/JSON manifests.
• Strong background in software testing, debugging, log analysis, and validating high-cardinality telemetry data.
• Familiarity with modern software delivery workflows (Git, PRs, CI/CD pipelines).

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across applications.
• Update YAMLs, env vars, and deployment manifests to align with architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validation suites to ensure telemetry is correctly generated and exported.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis against existing data to identify missing traces, metrics, logs, or attributes.
• Update dashboards, monitoring docs, and runbooks for the OTel architecture.
• Investigate collection/export errors and collaborate with core engineers on edge cases.
• Maintain progress tracking and report migration risks clearly.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry (OTel)

Distributed tracing

CI/CD

Tools

New Relic

OpenTelemetry Collector

Kubernetes

Git

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead a critical observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, adjust manifests, and validate telemetry to ensure seamless monitoring across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

You will work remotely in a global setup, coordinating with US/LATAM teams. Strong English, hands-on OTel, and cloud observability experience are required for success in this role.