Senior Software Engineer - Observability Migration (Remote)

BairesDev; Tandil; Remote; ARS 127,737,000 - 191,605,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Payment in USD

100% remote

Argentine holidays access

Professional development

Runbooks and migration checklists

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, update manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech environment while coordinating with global teams.

This is a remote, contractor role with USD payments and a strong emphasis on testing, dashboards, and runbooks to ensure continuous monitoring coverage during the migration.

Qualifications

• Proficient in at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry concepts: tracing, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configurations.
• Deep experience with cloud observability and migrating off legacy platforms.
• Reading/modifying complex YAML/JSON manifests; understanding HTTP/APIs.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update deployment manifests and environment variables to align with architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validation suites to verify telemetry generation and export to backends.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic vs OTel outputs.
• Update dashboards, documentation, and runbooks for the new architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection issues and collaborate with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Track progress, risks, and migration status.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

OTel Collector

YAML/JSON

Git/CI-CD

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, update manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech environment while coordinating with global teams.

This is a remote, contractor role with USD payments and a strong emphasis on testing, dashboards, and runbooks to ensure continuous monitoring coverage during the migration.