Senior Software Engineer: Remote Observability Migration

Kraken; Tandil; Remote; ARS 127,737,000 - 202,250,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Payment in USD

100% remote work

International team collaboration

Public holidays in Argentina

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Observability Migration to lead a critical upgrade from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This remote, contractor role requires coordinating across global teams and delivering end-to-end telemetry coverage for a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

You will instrument, validate, and migrate telemetry, update dashboards, and work within CI/CD workflows to ensure uninterrupted monitoring during the migration window.

Qualifications

• Proven experience with OpenTelemetry (OTel) concepts including traces, metrics and logs.
• Strong software engineering background with one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JS/TS).
• Deep understanding of cloud observability and migrating from legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Proficiency reading/modifying YAML/JSON manifests and basic infra configs.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update deployment manifests and environment variables according to the architecture.
• Run unit tests and validation to ensure telemetry is correctly generated and exported.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic data with OTel outputs.
• Assist in updating dashboards and runbooks to reflect the OTel architecture.
• Investigate export errors and collaborate with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Maintain progress tracking and report migration risks.

Skills

OTel concepts

Distributed tracing

Java/Go/JS/Python

YAML/JSON manifests

CI/CD pipelines

Git

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Observability Migration to lead a critical upgrade from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This remote, contractor role requires coordinating across global teams and delivering end-to-end telemetry coverage for a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

You will instrument, validate, and migrate telemetry, update dashboards, and work within CI/CD workflows to ensure uninterrupted monitoring during the migration window.