Senior SWE: OpenTelemetry Observability Migration (Remote)

Felix; Neuquén; Remote; ARS 127,737,000 - 234,184,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payments

100% remote

Professional development

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead a critical observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This remote, contractor role collaborates with global teams and requires strong telemetry expertise across tracing, metrics, and logs.

You will re-instrument applications, adjust manifests, and validate telemetry outputs, ensuring uninterrupted monitoring coverage in a high-scale fintech ecosystem. Advanced English and a track record in similar migrations are expected.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in software engineering with one modern language.
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry and telemetry collection.
• Deep experience with cloud observability and migrating off legacy platforms.
• Strong understanding of YAML/JSON manifests and APIs.
• Experience with modern software delivery workflows (Git, PRs, CI/CD).
• Knowledge of Kubernetes is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry from legacy to OpenTelemetry Collectors.
• Update YAML configurations, environment variables, and deployment manifests.
• Run unit tests and validate telemetry generation and export.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing old vs new outputs.
• Help update dashboards and runbooks reflecting the OTel architecture.
• Troubleshoot telemetry collection errors with platform engineers.
• Maintain tracking of progress, edge cases, and risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry concepts

Distributed tracing

CI/CD pipelines

Git

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

YAML

JSON manifests

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead a critical observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This remote, contractor role collaborates with global teams and requires strong telemetry expertise across tracing, metrics, and logs.

You will re-instrument applications, adjust manifests, and validate telemetry outputs, ensuring uninterrupted monitoring coverage in a high-scale fintech ecosystem. Advanced English and a track record in similar migrations are expected.