Senior Software Engineer — OpenTelemetry Migration (Remote)

Felix; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 185,448,000 - 231,811,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

100% remote work

International setting

Argentine public holidays

Job summary

Darwoft seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from legacy tooling to OpenTelemetry for a fintech-scale environment. You will re-instrument services, update manifests, and validate telemetry outputs across a high-scale setup.

You will collaborate with global teams and ensure monitoring coverage during migration, contributing to dashboards, runbooks, and production telemetry best practices in a contractor, USD-paid engagement.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with one or more modern languages (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts: tracing, metrics, logs, collectors.
• Deep exposure to cloud observability and migrating off legacy platforms.
• Strong understanding of HTTP, APIs, and reading/modifying YAML/JSON manifests.
• Experience with testing, debugging logs, and validating high-cardinality telemetry.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry configs from legacy to OpenTelemetry.
• Update deployment manifests, environment vars, and YAML files per standards.
• Run unit tests and validation suites to verify telemetry output to backends.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing current vs OTEL outputs.
• Update dashboards, docs, and runbooks to reflect the OTEL architecture.
• Investigate collection/export issues and collaborate with platform engineers.
• Track progress, edge cases, and migration risks.

Skills

Java/Python/Go/JS TS

HTTP APIs

Distributed tracing

Tools

OpenTelemetry

OTel Collector

Kubernetes

Git & CI/CD

YAML/JSON manifests

Job description

Darwoft seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from legacy tooling to OpenTelemetry for a fintech-scale environment. You will re-instrument services, update manifests, and validate telemetry outputs across a high-scale setup.

You will collaborate with global teams and ensure monitoring coverage during migration, contributing to dashboards, runbooks, and production telemetry best practices in a contractor, USD-paid engagement.