Senior Software Engineer - Observability Migration (Remote)

Loop3; Santa Fe Capital; Remote; ARS 149,026,000 - 276,763,000; Full time

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry, instrumenting applications and updating deployment manifests. This role is remote and global, with coordination across US/LATAM teams.

You will validate telemetry outputs, perform gap analyses, and help maintain monitoring coverage while improving dashboards and runbooks. Advanced English and strong testing, debugging, and cloud observability experience 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 (OTel) concepts, including distributed tracing, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configurations.
• Deep experience with cloud observability paradigms and transitioning off legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Solid understanding of HTTP, APIs, environment-based configurations, and reading/modifying complex YAML/JSON manifests.
• Strong background in software testing, debugging, log analysis, and validating high-cardinality telemetry data.
• Familiarity with modern software delivery workflows (Git, PRs, CI/CD pipelines).

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across applications.
• Update YAML configuration files, environment variables, and deployment manifests per architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validation suites to verify telemetry generation, transformation, and export to backends.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis by comparing New Relic data with OTel outputs.
• Assist in updating dashboards, monitoring docs, and runbooks for the OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection/export errors and identify root causes with platform engineers.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry (OTel)

Cloud observability

Git & CI/CD

HTTP APIs

Tools

OTel Collector configurations

Kubernetes

YAML/JSON manifests

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry, instrumenting applications and updating deployment manifests. This role is remote and global, with coordination across US/LATAM teams.

You will validate telemetry outputs, perform gap analyses, and help maintain monitoring coverage while improving dashboards and runbooks. Advanced English and strong testing, debugging, and cloud observability experience are essential.