Senior Software Engineer, OpenTelemetry Observability - Remote

Fullstack; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 185,448,000 - 278,173,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payment

100% remote

Argentinian holidays

Professional development

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead a critical observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications and update infrastructure manifests to ensure seamless monitoring across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

This contractor role is fully remote, coordinating with US/LATAM teams, with strong focus on telemetry accuracy, dashboards, and runbooks. Advanced English required, and hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry and Kubernetes is a plus.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JS/TS).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry knowledge including tracing, metrics, logs, and Collector configurations.
• Experience with cloud observability and migrating from legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Strong YAML/JSON skills for config and manifests.
• Familiarity with testing, debugging logs, and telemetry validation.
• Experience with Git and CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAMLs, env vars, and deployment manifests per architecture.
• Run unit tests and validate telemetry end-to-end.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis against OTel outputs.
• Update dashboards and runbooks reflecting the OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry errors and work with platform engineers.
• Maintain progress tracking and report migration risks.

Skills

Modern programming languages

OpenTelemetry concepts

Cloud observability & migrations

YAML/JSON manifests

Git & CI/CD

Tools

OpenTelemetry Collector

Kubernetes

YAML/JSON

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead a critical observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications and update infrastructure manifests to ensure seamless monitoring across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

This contractor role is fully remote, coordinating with US/LATAM teams, with strong focus on telemetry accuracy, dashboards, and runbooks. Advanced English required, and hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry and Kubernetes is a plus.