Senior Software Engineer - OpenTelemetry Migration (Remote)

Alignerr Corp.; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 154,540,000 - 231,811,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payment per contract

100% remote work

Argentine public holidays access

Job summary

Darwoft seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead a critical observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This remote contractor role requires coordinating with US, LATAM and global teams, reinstrumenting applications, and updating manifests for a scalable telemetry architecture.

The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry concepts, modern languages, and cloud observability, ensuring zero loss of monitoring during migration.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Migrate existing instrumentation, tracing, and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configuration files, environment variables, and deployment manifests according to architecture standards.
• Execute unit tests and validation suites to verify telemetry output to backends.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic data to OpenTelemetry outputs.
• Assist in updating dashboards, monitoring docs, and runbooks for the OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection/export errors and discuss root causes with platform engineers.
• Maintain tracking of implementation progress, edge cases, and migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript

TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

APIs

Git

CI/CD

Cloud observability

YAML/JSON

Testing

Distributed tracing

Tools

OTel Collector

Kubernetes

Job description

Darwoft seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead a critical observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This remote contractor role requires coordinating with US, LATAM and global teams, reinstrumenting applications, and updating manifests for a scalable telemetry architecture.

The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry concepts, modern languages, and cloud observability, ensuring zero loss of monitoring during migration.