Senior Software Engineer - OpenTelemetry Migration (Remote)

Outlier; Tandil; Remote; ARS 139,086,000 - 185,448,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payment

100% remote work

Argentine public holidays

Career development

International exposure

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This remote, contractor role coordinates with US/LATAM/global teams to re-instrument applications and update manifests for a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

You will validate telemetry across traces, metrics, and logs, ensure dashboards reflect the new architecture, and maintain development velocity with modern pipelines and Kubernetes environments where applicable.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with one or more modern languages (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts: traces, metrics, logs, OTel Collector.
• Cloud observability and migration from legacy platforms.
• Reading and modifying complex YAML/JSON manifests; APIs and HTTP knowledge.
• Experience with testing, debugging logs, and validating telemetry data.
• Familiarity with Git workflows and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across apps and infra.
• Update deployment manifests and environment configs per architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validation to ensure correct telemetry outputs to backends.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis against existing data and identify missing items.
• Update dashboards, docs, and runbooks to reflect OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry issues and collaborate with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Track progress, risks, and migration status.

Skills

Java/Python/Go/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Distributed tracing

Cloud observability

Git/CI-CD

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD

YAML/JSON

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This remote, contractor role coordinates with US/LATAM/global teams to re-instrument applications and update manifests for a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

You will validate telemetry across traces, metrics, and logs, ensure dashboards reflect the new architecture, and maintain development velocity with modern pipelines and Kubernetes environments where applicable.