Senior Fullstack Engineer - Observability Migration (Remote)

Virtualent; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 170,316,000 - 255,474,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% remote

Global team

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across a global, remote-first team. You will instrument services, update manifests, and ensure end-to-end telemetry coverage while working with US/LATAM stakeholders.

You should have strong experience in Java, Python, Go, or TS, plus hands-on OpenTelemetry and Kubernetes. This contractor role is remote worldwide with USD payments and a focus on high-scale fintech platforms.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineer with proficiency in Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts including tracing, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configurations.
• Deep experience with cloud observability and migrating from legacy platforms.
• Strong understanding of HTTP, APIs, YAML/JSON, and configuration management.
• Strong software testing, debugging logs, and validating high-cardinality telemetry.
• Familiarity with Git, PRs, and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configuration files, environment vars, and deployment manifests.
• Run unit tests and validation suites to ensure telemetry is correctly generated and exported.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic data with OTel outputs.
• Update dashboards, monitoring docs, and runbooks to reflect OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection/export errors and coordinate with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Maintain progress tracking and report migration risks.

Skills

OpenTelemetry

Distributed tracing

Telemetry

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

YAML/JSON

Testing

Git

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Tools

OTel Collector

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across a global, remote-first team. You will instrument services, update manifests, and ensure end-to-end telemetry coverage while working with US/LATAM stakeholders.

You should have strong experience in Java, Python, Go, or TS, plus hands-on OpenTelemetry and Kubernetes. This contractor role is remote worldwide with USD payments and a focus on high-scale fintech platforms.