Senior Software Engineer — OpenTelemetry Migration (Remote)

Devconnectplatform; Municipio de Rincón de los Sauces; Remote; ARS 185,448,000 - 278,173,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payment

100% remote work

Argentine public holidays

Modern fintech projects

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry, instrumenting applications and updating deployment manifests.

You will collaborate with global teams across LATAM and the US, ensuring zero loss of monitoring coverage while introducing a scalable OTel Collector architecture.

This contractor role offers 100% remote work, USD payments, and access to modern fintech projects.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with modern languages (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry concepts: tracing, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configurations.
• Cloud observability experience and migrating off legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Strong understanding of YAML/JSON manifests, APIs, and environment configurations.
• Experience with software testing, debugging logs, and validating high-cardinality telemetry data.
• Familiarity with Git, PRs, and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML files, environment vars, and deployment manifests per architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validation to ensure telemetry is correctly generated and exported.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis between New Relic data and OTel outputs.
• Update dashboards, docs, and runbooks to reflect the OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection errors and collaborate with platform engineers.
• Track progress, edge cases, and migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

New Relic

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry, instrumenting applications and updating deployment manifests.

You will collaborate with global teams across LATAM and the US, ensuring zero loss of monitoring coverage while introducing a scalable OTel Collector architecture.

This contractor role offers 100% remote work, USD payments, and access to modern fintech projects.