Senior Software Engineer - Observability Migration (Remote)

BairesDev; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 127,737,000 - 234,184,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Public holidays

Professional development

Referral programs

Job summary

Darwoft seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry, ensuring seamless telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem. You will instrument applications, update manifests, and validate telemetry end-to-end in a remote, global setup.

Advanced English required; strong background in distributed tracing, metrics, and logs, plus experience with Git/CI/CD. This is a contractor role with USD payments and 100% remote work.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts including distributed tracing, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configurations.
• Deep experience with cloud observability and migrating from legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Solid understanding of HTTP, APIs, and environment-based configurations; able to read/modify YAML/JSON manifests.
• Strong testing, debugging, and validation of high-cardinality telemetry data.
• Familiarity with Git and CI/CD workflows.
• Nice-to-have: OTel Collector experience in Kubernetes or containers.
• Nice-to-have: FinOps/cost-optimization related to telemetry ingestion.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation, tracing, and telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configs, environment vars, and deployment manifests per architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validation to ensure telemetry is generated, transformed, and exported correctly.
• Conduct telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic data with OTel outputs.
• Assist in updating dashboards, docs, and runbooks for the OTel migration.
• Investigate collection/export errors and collaborate with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Track progress, edge cases, and migration risks with clear reporting.

Skills

Java/Python/Go/JS TS

OpenTelemetry (OTel)

Cloud observability

HTTP/APIs & YAML/JSON manifests

Testing & debugging telemetry

Git, CI/CD workflows

OTel Collectors on Kubernetes

Telemetry cost optimization

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Darwoft seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry, ensuring seamless telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem. You will instrument applications, update manifests, and validate telemetry end-to-end in a remote, global setup.

Advanced English required; strong background in distributed tracing, metrics, and logs, plus experience with Git/CI/CD. This is a contractor role with USD payments and 100% remote work.