Senior Software Engineer – Observability & OTel (Remote)

BairesDev; Neuquén; Remote; ARS 127,737,000 - 212,895,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payment

100% remote

Argentine public holidays

Professional development

Job summary

Darwoft seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry (OTel) Collector-based architecture. You will instrument applications, update manifests, and validate telemetry end-to-end in a high-scale fintech environment.

Remote, contractor role with USD payment, coordinating with US/LATAM teams. The role demands strong software engineering background across Java/Python/Go/JS-TS, plus hands-on OTel experience, and a proactive approach to maintaining

Qualifications

• Proficiency 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 like New Relic.
• Strong reading/modifying of YAML/JSON manifests and APIs.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation, tracing, and telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update deployment manifests and environment configurations per architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validation suites for telemetry accuracy and export to backends.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic data to OTel outputs.
• Help update dashboards and runbooks reflecting the OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection errors and collaborate with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Keep progress tracking and report migration risks clearly.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry (OTel)

Cloud observability

YAML/JSON manifests

Testing & debugging telemetry

Git & CI/CD

Tools

OpenTelemetry

New Relic

Kubernetes

Job description

Darwoft seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry (OTel) Collector-based architecture. You will instrument applications, update manifests, and validate telemetry end-to-end in a high-scale fintech environment.

Remote, contractor role with USD payment, coordinating with US/LATAM teams. The role demands strong software engineering background across Java/Python/Go/JS-TS, plus hands-on OTel experience, and a proactive approach to maintaining