Senior Software Engineer — OpenTelemetry Observability (Remote)

Encora; Tandil; Remote; ARS 127,737,000 - 212,895,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Payment in USD

100% remote work

Public holidays (Argentina)

Professional development

Direct involvement in core observabili

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, adjust manifests, and ensure seamless telemetry across a high-scale fintech environment while aligning with global teams.

You will own validation of telemetry outputs, contribute to dashboards and runbooks, and collaborate with platform engineers to resolve edge cases.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineer with at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or TS/JS).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts: tracing, metrics, logs, and Collector configurations.
• Experience migrating observability from legacy platforms to modern architectures.
• Solid understanding of HTTP, APIs, and reading/modifying YAML/JSON manifests.
• Strong background in software testing, debugging logs, and validating telemetry data.
• Familiarity with Git, PRs, and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry configurations from legacy to OTel.</br>Update YAML files, env vars, and deployment manifests to new architecture.
• Run unit tests and validation suites to ensure telemetry correctness and export to backends.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing old data to OTel outputs to find missing traces, metrics, or logs.
• Help update dashboards, docs, and runbooks to reflect OTel.</br>Investigate telemetry collection/export errors with platform engineers.

Skills

OpenTelemetry concepts

Distributed tracing

CI/CD workflows

HTTP & APIs

YAML/JSON manifests

Git

Tools

OpenTelemetry Collector

Kubernetes

JSON/YAML manifests

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, adjust manifests, and ensure seamless telemetry across a high-scale fintech environment while aligning with global teams.

You will own validation of telemetry outputs, contribute to dashboards and runbooks, and collaborate with platform engineers to resolve edge cases.