Senior Java Backend Engineer — Cloud Native & OTel

Centro de e-Learning; Santa Fe Capital; Remote; ARS 137,974,000 - 206,960,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contractor USD payment

100% remote work

Public holidays in Argentina

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to migrate observability from New Relic to a modern OpenTelemetry-based architecture. You will re-instrument applications, update manifests, validate telemetry outputs, and ensure continuous monitoring coverage with a high-scale infra.

You will lead telemetry migrations, review code, and participate in dashboards/documentation updates. Remote role with coordination across US, LATAM, and global teams.

Qualifications

• Proficient in at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on with OpenTelemetry (OTel) concepts including tracing, metrics, logs, and Collector configs.
• Deep experience with cloud observability and migrating from legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Solid understanding of HTTP, APIs, and complex YAML/JSON manifests.
• Strong testing, debugging, and log analysis skills for telemetry data.
• Familiar with Git, PRs, and CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update deployment manifests and environment variables to OpenTelemetry standards.
• Run unit tests and validation to ensure telemetry is correctly exported to backends.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis between New Relic and OTel outputs.
• Update dashboards and Runbooks to reflect the OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry issues and collaborate with platform engineers.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry (OTel)

Distributed tracing

APIs

Git

CI/CD

Tools

OpenTelemetry Collector

Kubernetes

YAML/JSON manifests

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to migrate observability from New Relic to a modern OpenTelemetry-based architecture. You will re-instrument applications, update manifests, validate telemetry outputs, and ensure continuous monitoring coverage with a high-scale infra.

You will lead telemetry migrations, review code, and participate in dashboards/documentation updates. Remote role with coordination across US, LATAM, and global teams.