Senior OpenTelemetry Engineer - Remote Fintech Platform

The Flex; Tandil; Remote; ARS 155,220,000 - 224,207,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payment

100% remote

International collaboration

Professional development

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to an OpenTelemetry-based architecture. You will re-instrument applications and update infrastructure manifests, ensuring telemetry is accurately generated, transformed, and exported across a high-scale ecosystem while maintaining operational visibility.

The role requires strong expertise in OpenTelemetry, modern programming languages, and cloud observability.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configs, environment variables, and deployment manifests to match architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validation to ensure telemetry is generated and exported correctly.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic data with OTel outputs.
• Update dashboards, monitoring docs, and runbooks for the OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection errors and collaborate with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Track implementation progress, edge cases, and migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry (OTel)

Cloud observability

YAML/JSON

APIs

Testing & debugging

Git & CI/CD

Tools

OpenTelemetry Collector

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to an OpenTelemetry-based architecture. You will re-instrument applications and update infrastructure manifests, ensuring telemetry is accurately generated, transformed, and exported across a high-scale ecosystem while maintaining operational visibility.

The role requires strong expertise in OpenTelemetry, modern programming languages, and cloud observability.