Senior Software Engineer - Observability Migration Remote

Acciona It; Tandil; Remote; ARS 127,737,000 - 255,474,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payment

Remote work

Argentine holidays

Professional development

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to an OpenTelemetry Collector-based architecture. This remote contractor role involves instrumenting applications, updating manifests, and validating telemetry across a global fintech ecosystem.

You will ensure end-to-end telemetry coverage, contribute to dashboards and docs, and work with cloud observability practices. Advanced English required; U.S./LATAM coordination is typical.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation, tracing, and telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configurations, environment vars, and deployment manifests per architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validation to ensure telemetry is produced and exported correctly.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic data with OpenTelemetry outputs.
• Assist in updating dashboards, monitoring docs, and runbooks for the OTEL architecture.
• Investigate collection/export errors and collaborate with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Maintain progress tracking and report migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript

TypeScript

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

YAML

JSON

CI/CD

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to an OpenTelemetry Collector-based architecture. This remote contractor role involves instrumenting applications, updating manifests, and validating telemetry across a global fintech ecosystem.

You will ensure end-to-end telemetry coverage, contribute to dashboards and docs, and work with cloud observability practices. Advanced English required; U.S./LATAM coordination is typical.