Senior Observability & Backend Engineer (OTel Migration)

Team8; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 127,737,000 - 212,895,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% remote work

USD payments

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry in a global remote setup. You will instrumentalize applications, update manifests, validate telemetry, and ensure monitoring continuity across a high-scale fintech infrastructure.

Strong OpenTelemetry experience and cloud observability are essential, with collaboration across US/LATAM teams. Join a fast-paced, contractor-style role focused on delivering a modern telemetry

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation, tracing, and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configurations, environment variables, and deployment manifests to match architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validation to ensure telemetry is correctly generated and exported to backends.
• Perform telemetry gap analyses by comparing New Relic data with OpenTelemetry outputs.
• Assist in updating dashboards, monitoring docs, and runbooks for the new architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection/export errors and collaborate with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Maintain progress tracking, edge cases, and migration risk reports.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry in a global remote setup. You will instrumentalize applications, update manifests, validate telemetry, and ensure monitoring continuity across a high-scale fintech infrastructure.

Strong OpenTelemetry experience and cloud observability are essential, with collaboration across US/LATAM teams. Join a fast-paced, contractor-style role focused on delivering a modern telemetry