Senior JS Engineer — OpenTelemetry & Observability (Remote)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Remote contractor position

Job summary

Darwoft is migrating observability telemetry from New Relic to a modern OpenTelemetry (OTel) Collector-based architecture. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will re-instrument applications, update infrastructure manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

The role requires strong experience with modern languages and OTel concepts, cloud observability, and strong debugging skills. This is a remote contractor position with global coordination.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or TS).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts incl. tracing, metrics, logs, and OTEL Collector configurations.
• Experience with cloud observability and migrating from legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Strong ability to read/modify YAML/JSON manifests and APIs.
• Familiar with Git, PRs, and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configs, env vars, and deployment manifests.
• Run tests and validate telemetry outputs.
• Analyze telemetry gaps between New Relic and OTel.
• Update dashboards and runbooks for the new telemetry.
• Investigate errors with engineers on edge cases.
• Track progress and migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Distributed tracing

Git

CI/CD

Debugging

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry Collector

Docker

YAML/JSON

Job description

Darwoft is migrating observability telemetry from New Relic to a modern OpenTelemetry (OTel) Collector-based architecture. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will re-instrument applications, update infrastructure manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

The role requires strong experience with modern languages and OTel concepts, cloud observability, and strong debugging skills. This is a remote contractor position with global coordination.