Senior Software Engineer — Observability Migration (Remote)

Loop3; Neuquén; Remote; ARS 139,086,000 - 231,811,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work (international)

Payment in USD

Public holidays access

Professional development

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will instrument applications, update deployment manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem in a fully remote, contractor capacity.

This role requires strong distributed tracing, metrics, and log expertise, plus experience with Kubernetes and modern CI/CD workflows.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry configuration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configuration files, environment variables, and deployment manifests.
• Run unit tests and validation to ensure telemetry is generated and exported correctly.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic data to OTel outputs.
• Update dashboards, docs, and runbooks to reflect the OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection errors and work with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Maintain progress tracking and report migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry concepts

Cloud observability

YAML/JSON

CI/CD pipelines

Tools

OpenTelemetry Collector

Kubernetes

YAML manifests

JSON manifests

Git

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will instrument applications, update deployment manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem in a fully remote, contractor capacity.

This role requires strong distributed tracing, metrics, and log expertise, plus experience with Kubernetes and modern CI/CD workflows.