Senior Software Engineer - Observability Migration | Remote

Cloudgeometry; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 127,737,000 - 234,184,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payments

100% remote

International collaboration

Professional development

Public holidays (Argentina)

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This remote contractor role focuses on instrumenting applications, updating manifests, and ensuring seamless telemetry coverage across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

You will validate telemetry outputs, collaborate with global teams, and contribute to dashboards and runbooks while maintaining strong engineering practices and modern delivery workflows.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience (senior) with at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts: tracing, metrics, logs, and Collector configurations.
• Deep cloud observability experience and migration from legacy platforms.
• Strong understanding of HTTP, APIs, environment-based configurations, and reading complex manifests.
• Experience with tests, debugging logs, and validating high-cardinality telemetry.
• Familiarity with modern delivery workflows (Git, PRs, CI/CD).

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across applications and infrastructure.
• Update YAML configs, environment vars, and deployment manifests per architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validation suites to ensure telemetry is exported correctly to backends.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic data with OpenTelemetry outputs.
• Help update dashboards, docs, and runbooks for the new telemetry architecture.
• Investigate collection/export errors and coordinate with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Maintain progress tracking and report migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

YAML/JSON

Git & CI/CD

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This remote contractor role focuses on instrumenting applications, updating manifests, and ensuring seamless telemetry coverage across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

You will validate telemetry outputs, collaborate with global teams, and contribute to dashboards and runbooks while maintaining strong engineering practices and modern delivery workflows.