Senior Software Engineer: Observability Migration (Remote)

BairesDev; Municipio de Rincón de los Sauces; Remote; ARS 127,737,000 - 255,474,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Contractor payment in USD

100% remote with international teams

Public holidays in Argentina support

Modern observability modernization for

Professional development resources

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications and update manifests for a scalable OpenTelemetry-based telemetry stack.

You will validate telemetry end-to-end, collaborate with platform teams, and help keep monitoring coverage intact during the migration window. This is a fully remote, contractor role with USD payments.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineer with proficiency in Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry concepts, including distributed tracing, metrics, logs, and Collector configurations.
• Deep experience with cloud observability and migrating off legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Solid understanding of HTTP, APIs, environment configurations, and editing complex YAML/JSON manifests.
• Strong background in software testing, debugging log analysis, and validating telemetry data.
• Familiarity with modern software delivery workflows (Git, PRs, CI/CD).

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry configurations from legacy to OpenTelemetry.
• Update deployment manifests, environment variables, and configuration files per architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validation to ensure telemetry is correctly generated and exported to backends.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis between New Relic data and OpenTelemetry outputs.
• Update dashboards, monitoring docs, and runbooks for the OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection errors and collaborate with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Maintain tracking of progress, edge cases, and migration risks.

Skills

OpenTelemetry

Distributed tracing

YAML/JSON manifests

APIs

Cloud observability

Git

CI/CD

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications and update manifests for a scalable OpenTelemetry-based telemetry stack.

You will validate telemetry end-to-end, collaborate with platform teams, and help keep monitoring coverage intact during the migration window. This is a fully remote, contractor role with USD payments.