Sr Software Engineer - Observability Migration OTel Remote

YO HR Consultancy; Tandil; Remote; ARS 127,737,000 - 255,474,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contractor payment in USD

100% remote work

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration, moving telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry within a scalable fintech stack. You will re-instrument applications, update manifests, and validate telemetry across services while maintaining operational visibility.

This contractor role is fully remote, coordinating with US/LATAM/global teams. Strong experience in Java, Python, Go, or TypeScript, plus OpenTelemetry expertise, is required.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience in at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry concepts: tracing, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configurations.
• Deep experience with cloud observability and migrating off legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Reading/modifying complex YAML/JSON manifests; strong testing and debugging skills.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML files, environment variables, and deployment manifests to match architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validation suites to ensure telemetry is correctly generated and exported.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic data to OTel outputs to find missing traces, metrics, and logs.
• Update dashboards, monitoring docs, and runbooks; assist with issue investigations and edge-case migrations.
• Track progress and communicate migration risks clearly to stakeholders.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

Tools

OpenTelemetry

OTel Collector

Kubernetes

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration, moving telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry within a scalable fintech stack. You will re-instrument applications, update manifests, and validate telemetry across services while maintaining operational visibility.

This contractor role is fully remote, coordinating with US/LATAM/global teams. Strong experience in Java, Python, Go, or TypeScript, plus OpenTelemetry expertise, is required.