Senior Software Engineer - Observability Migration (Remote)

CXT Software; Municipio de Rincón de los Sauces; Remote; ARS 149,026,000 - 255,474,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payments

100% remote

Argentine holidays

Observability modernization

Professional development

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to support a critical observability migration. You will lead transition of telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry, re-instrument applications, and validate end-to-end telemetry across a high-scale fintech platform.

As a contractor, work remotely with US/LATAM/global teams, using languages like Java, Python, Go, or TS, and applying OTel concepts. Strong testing and collaboration are essential.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in software engineering with proficiency in at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry concepts, including distributed tracing, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configurations.
• Deep experience with cloud observability and migrating off legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Strong understanding of YAML/JSON manifests, HTTP, APIs, and environment-based configurations.
• Solid background in software testing, debugging log analysis, 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 configuration files, environment variables, and deployment manifests according to architecture standards.
• Execute unit tests and validation suites to verify telemetry outputs to backends.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis by comparing New Relic data with OpenTelemetry outputs.
• Update dashboards, monitoring docs, and runbooks to reflect OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection/export errors and collaborate with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Maintain tracking and reporting of migration progress and risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Cloud observability

YAML/JSON manifests

Testing & debugging

Git & CI/CD

Tools

OTel Collector

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

New Relic migration

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to support a critical observability migration. You will lead transition of telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry, re-instrument applications, and validate end-to-end telemetry across a high-scale fintech platform.

As a contractor, work remotely with US/LATAM/global teams, using languages like Java, Python, Go, or TS, and applying OTel concepts. Strong testing and collaboration are essential.