Senior Software Engineer: Observability Migration (OTel)

Acciona It; Tandil; Remote; ARS 127,737,000 - 212,895,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Contractor paid in USD

100% remote work

Argentine holidays

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, adjust manifests, and validate telemetry end-to-end in a remote, globally distributed team.

The role emphasizes deep OTEL knowledge, distributed tracing, and collaboration with platform engineers to ensure continuous monitoring across a high-scale fintech environment.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience in modern languages (Java, Python, Go, or JS/TS).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry (OTel) experience: tracing, metrics, logs, collectors.
• Cloud observability experience and migration from legacy tools.
• Strong understanding of HTTP, APIs, and reading complex manifests.
• Experience with testing, debugging and telemetry validation.
• Familiar with Git and CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update deployment manifests and environment configs per architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validation to ensure telemetry correctness.
• Perform gap analysis between New Relic data and OTel outputs.
• Update dashboards and troubleshooting guides for the new telemetry setup.
• Investigate telemetry export errors and collaborate with platform engineers.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry (OTel) concepts

Distributed tracing

Git

CI/CD pipelines

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry Collector configurations

YAML/JSON manifests

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, adjust manifests, and validate telemetry end-to-end in a remote, globally distributed team.

The role emphasizes deep OTEL knowledge, distributed tracing, and collaboration with platform engineers to ensure continuous monitoring across a high-scale fintech environment.