Senior Software Engineer: OpenTelemetry Migration (Remote)

Darwoft; Buenos Aires; Remote; ARS 181,747,000 - 287,765,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payment

100% remote work

Argentine public holidays

Professional development

Referral programs

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications and update infrastructure manifests to ensure seamless monitoring across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

The role is remote (global) with coordination across US, LATAM, and international teams. You will validate telemetry outputs and contribute to dashboards, runbooks, and documentation as part of a critical migration effort.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry (OTel) experience including tracing, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configurations.
• Deep experience with cloud observability and migrating from legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Strong understanding of HTTP, APIs, environment configurations, and reading/editing YAML/JSON manifests.
• Solid testing, debugging, log analysis, and validation of telemetry data.
• Familiarity with Git and CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across applications and infra.
• Update YAML configs, env vars, and deployment manifests per architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validation suites to ensure telemetry is generated and exported correctly.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic data with OTEL outputs.
• Update dashboards, docs, and runbooks to reflect the OTEL architecture.
• Investigate telemetry errors and collaborate with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Track progress, edge cases, and migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD

YAML

JSON

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD

YAML

JSON

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications and update infrastructure manifests to ensure seamless monitoring across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

The role is remote (global) with coordination across US, LATAM, and international teams. You will validate telemetry outputs and contribute to dashboards, runbooks, and documentation as part of a critical migration effort.