Senior Software Engineer - Observability Migration (OTel) — Remote

Kraken; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 155,220,000 - 241,454,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Contractor agreement with USD payment

100% remote work

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration project. The role focuses on re-instrumenting applications and transitioning telemetry from New Relic to a modern OpenTelemetry-based architecture.

You will ensure seamless monitoring across a high-scale fintech infra, collaborating with global teams. The ideal candidate has strong programming skills (Java/Python/Go/JS/TS), deep OTel experience, and a track record of transforming legacy observability into scalable,

Qualifications

• Proficient in at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry (OTel) experience incl. tracing, metrics, logs, Collector configs.
• Cloud observability experience and migration from legacy platforms.
• Strong understanding of HTTP, APIs, YAML/JSON manifests.
• Experience with software testing, debugging logs, and validating telemetry data.
• Familiar with Git, PRs, and CI/CD processes.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation from legacy systems to OpenTelemetry.
• Update deployment manifests and environment variables to the new architecture.
• Run unit tests and validation to ensure telemetry is correctly generated and exported.
• Perform telemetry gap analyses comparing current data to OTel outputs.
• Assist in updating dashboards and monitoring documentation to reflect the new setup.
• Investigate telemetry collection/export errors and identify root causes with platform engineers.
• Track progress, edge cases, and potential migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

Unit testing

Debugging logs

Tools

OpenTelemetry (OTel)

New Relic

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration project. The role focuses on re-instrumenting applications and transitioning telemetry from New Relic to a modern OpenTelemetry-based architecture.

You will ensure seamless monitoring across a high-scale fintech infra, collaborating with global teams. The ideal candidate has strong programming skills (Java/Python/Go/JS/TS), deep OTel experience, and a track record of transforming legacy observability into scalable,