Senior Software Engineer — OTel Observability Migration (Remote)

Felix; Tandil; Remote; ARS 155,220,000 - 258,701,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Payment in USD

100% remote work

Argentine public holidays

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to an OpenTelemetry-based Collector architecture. You will instrument applications, adjust manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

The role is fully remote with global coordination across US, LATAM, and international teams. Strong expertise in OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, and modern languages is essential. English level is Advanced (C1).

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with 1+ modern languages (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts: tracing, metrics, logs, and Collector configurations.
• Cloud observability experience and migrating from legacy platforms (New Relic).
• Strong understanding of HTTP, APIs, environment configs, and reading/modifying YAML/JSON manifests.
• Solid testing, debugging, and validation of high-cardinality telemetry data.
• Familiarity with Git and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update deployment manifests and environment variables to match architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validation to ensure telemetry is correct and exported to backends.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic and OTel data.
• Update dashboards, docs, and runbooks for OTel architecture.
• Troubleshoot telemetry collection/export issues with platform engineers.
• Track progress, edge cases, and migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Git

CI/CD

Distributed tracing

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

YAML/JSON manifests

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to an OpenTelemetry-based Collector architecture. You will instrument applications, adjust manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

The role is fully remote with global coordination across US, LATAM, and international teams. Strong expertise in OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, and modern languages is essential. English level is Advanced (C1).