Senior Software Engineer: OpenTelemetry & Observability

Fullstack; Tandil; Remote; ARS 127,737,000 - 255,474,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payment

100% remote

Argentine public holidays

Professional development

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to drive a critical observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This remote, contractor role coordinates with global teams across LATAM and beyond, focusing on telemetry instrumentation and validation in a high-scale fintech environment.

You will instrument, test, and refine traces, metrics, and logs, update configurations, and contribute to runbooks and dashboards to ensure continuous monitoring during the migration window.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with modern languages (Java, Python, Go or JS/TS).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry experience: traces, metrics, logs and OTel Collector configs.
• Cloud observability and migration from legacy tools to OTel.
• Reading and editing complex YAML/JSON manifests, HTTP/API basics.
• Strong testing, debugging of telemetry data, and knowledge of pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configs, env vars, and deployment manifests per architecture.
• Run unit tests and validation to verify telemetry outputs.
• Perform gap analysis between NR and OTel data across traces, metrics, logs.
• Update dashboards, docs, and runbooks for the new architecture.
• Troubleshoot telemetry collection errors and collaborate with platform engineers.
• Track progress, risks, and edge cases during migration.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

YAML/JSON manifests

Git|CI/CD

Tools

OpenTelemetry

OTel Collector

Kubernetes

Git & CI/CD

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to drive a critical observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This remote, contractor role coordinates with global teams across LATAM and beyond, focusing on telemetry instrumentation and validation in a high-scale fintech environment.

You will instrument, test, and refine traces, metrics, and logs, update configurations, and contribute to runbooks and dashboards to ensure continuous monitoring during the migration window.