Senior Software Engineer - OpenTelemetry Migration (Remote)

CXT Software; Ciudad de Mendoza; Remote; ARS 185,448,000 - 278,173,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

100% remote work

Argentine public holidays

Professional development program

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from legacy tooling to OpenTelemetry Collector-based architecture. You will instrument applications, update manifests, run validation suites, and ensure full monitoring coverage during migration.

This contractor role is remote (global) with USD payments. You will collaborate with US/LATAM teams, review code, and contribute to dashboards and runbooks while maintaining high availability and performance across a

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or TypeScript).
• Hands-on with OpenTelemetry concepts and Collector configurations.
• Experience migrating observability from legacy tools like New Relic.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation, tracing, and telemetry from legacy systems to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAMLs, environment vars, and deployment manifests.
• Run tests and validate telemetry end-to-end across backends.
• Analyze telemetry gaps and ensure coverage during migration.
• Update dashboards, docs, and runbooks to reflect the new architecture.
• Troubleshoot telemetry collection issues with platform engineers.
• Track progress and migration risks clearly.

Skills

OpenTelemetry (OTel) concepts

Distributed tracing

Go

Java

Python

TypeScript

CI/CD

Git

Kubernetes

OTel Collector

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry Collector

Git workflows

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from legacy tooling to OpenTelemetry Collector-based architecture. You will instrument applications, update manifests, run validation suites, and ensure full monitoring coverage during migration.

This contractor role is remote (global) with USD payments. You will collaborate with US/LATAM teams, review code, and contribute to dashboards and runbooks while maintaining high availability and performance across a