Senior Software Engineer — OpenTelemetry Migration (Remote)

Zinier; Tandil; Remote; ARS 139,086,000 - 231,811,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Payment in USD

100% remote work

Argentine holidays access

Job summary

Darwoft seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, update manifests, validate telemetry, and ensure continuous monitoring across a high-scale fintech stack.

This is a fully remote, contractor position coordinating with global teams. The role emphasizes strong testing, telemetry quality, and collaboration with core platform engineers to minimize disruption during the migration window.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JS/TS).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts including traces, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configurations.
• Cloud observability experience and migrating off legacy platforms.
• Strong understanding of HTTP, APIs, and YAML/JSON manifests.
• Experience in testing, debugging logs, and validating telemetry data.
• Familiar with Git, PRs, and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configs, environment vars, and deployment manifests.
• Run unit tests and validation suites for telemetry outputs.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic data to OTel outputs.
• Update dashboards, docs, and runbooks for the new architecture.
• Troubleshoot telemetry collection errors and collaborate with platform engineers.
• Track progress, edge cases, and migration risks transparently.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

Tools

OpenTelemetry

OTel Collector

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Git

Job description

Darwoft seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, update manifests, validate telemetry, and ensure continuous monitoring across a high-scale fintech stack.

This is a fully remote, contractor position coordinating with global teams. The role emphasizes strong testing, telemetry quality, and collaboration with core platform engineers to minimize disruption during the migration window.