Senior Software Engineer — Observability Migration (Remote)

CXT Software; Santa Fe Capital; Remote; ARS 127,071,000 - 211,785,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contractor payment in USD

100% remote work

Access to Argentine public holidays

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This remote, global contractor role requires instrumenting applications, updating manifests, and validating telemetry across a high-scale ecosystem without losing monitoring coverage.

You will work across modern languages (Java, Python, Go, or TS) and collaborate with US/LATAM/global teams. Strong testing, dashboards updates, and edge-case debugging are essential.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience in at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or TS/JavaScript).
• Hands-on with OpenTelemetry concepts: tracing, metrics, logs, and Collector configs.
• Strong background in cloud observability and migrating from legacy platforms.
• Solid knowledge of HTTP, APIs, and reading/modifying complex YAML/JSON manifests.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation from current setup to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configs, environment vars, and deployment manifests per architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validation suites to ensure telemetry is properly generated and exported.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic data to OpenTelemetry outputs.
• Update dashboards, monitoring docs, and runbooks for the OTel architecture.
• Investigate collection/export issues and coordinate with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Maintain progress tracking and report migration risks clearly.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Observability

YAML/JSON

Testing

Git/CI-CD

Tools

OTel Collector

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This remote, global contractor role requires instrumenting applications, updating manifests, and validating telemetry across a high-scale ecosystem without losing monitoring coverage.

You will work across modern languages (Java, Python, Go, or TS) and collaborate with US/LATAM/global teams. Strong testing, dashboards updates, and edge-case debugging are essential.