Senior Software Engineer - Observability Migration (OTel)

Lateral Group; Tandil; Remote; ARS 149,026,000 - 255,474,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payments

100% remote work

Argentine holidays

Professional development

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead a critical observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, update infrastructure manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem while ensuring full monitoring coverage.

The role is remote, global, and contracted, with English at Advanced (C1). You will collaborate with US/LATAM teams, align with architecture standards, and drive dashboards and runbooks for a smooth

Qualifications

• Experience with software engineering in modern languages (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry concepts (tracing, metrics, logs) and OTel Collector configurations.
• Deep experience with cloud observability and migrating off legacy platforms (e.g., New Relic).
• Strong understanding of HTTP, APIs, env-based configurations, and reading/modifying YAML/JSON manifests.
• Background in software testing, debugging log analysis, and validating telemetry data.
• Familiarity with Git and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation, tracing, and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configs, environment variables, and deployment manifests per architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validation to ensure telemetry is generated, transformed, and exported correctly.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis by comparing New Relic data with OTel outputs to identify missing traces, metrics, logs, or attributes.
• Update dashboards, monitoring docs, and runbooks to reflect the OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection and export errors, identify root causes, and collaborate with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Maintain progress tracking and report migration risks clearly.

Skills

OpenTelemetry

Distributed tracing

Cloud observability

YAML/JSON manifests

Testing & debugging

Git & CI/CD

Programming in Java/Python/Go/JS/TS

Tools

OpenTelemetry Collector

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead a critical observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, update infrastructure manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem while ensuring full monitoring coverage.

The role is remote, global, and contracted, with English at Advanced (C1). You will collaborate with US/LATAM teams, align with architecture standards, and drive dashboards and runbooks for a smooth