Senior Software Engineer — Observability Migration (Remote)

Improving South America; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 139,086,000 - 231,811,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Payment in USD

100% remote work

Argentine holidays

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead a critical observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will instrument applications, adjust deployment manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech stack in a fully remote, global setting.

You will work with cloud observability practices, write tests, and document the migration clearly. Collaboration with US/LATAM teams is essential for success.

Qualifications

• Must have proven software engineering experience with at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry concepts, including distributed tracing, metrics, and logs.
• Deep experience with cloud observability and migrating off legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Strong understanding of HTTP, APIs, environment-based configurations, and reading/modifying YAML/JSON manifests.
• Solid background in testing, debugging logs, and validating high-cardinality telemetry data.
• Familiarity with Git and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML files, environment variables, and deployment manifests per architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validation suites to ensure telemetry is correctly generated, transformed, and exported.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis 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 and collaborate with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Maintain progress tracking and report migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry (OTel)

Cloud observability

YAML/JSON manifests

Testing & debugging

Git & CI/CD

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

YAML/JSON manifests

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead a critical observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will instrument applications, adjust deployment manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech stack in a fully remote, global setting.

You will work with cloud observability practices, write tests, and document the migration clearly. Collaboration with US/LATAM teams is essential for success.