Sr Software Engineer: OTel Observability Migration | Remote

Svitla Systems, Inc.; Rosario; Remote; ARS 149,026,000 - 255,474,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payments

100% remote

Access to Argentine public holidays

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, adjust manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem while coordinating with global teams.

This contractor role is fully remote with USD payments and requires strong experience in OpenTelemetry concepts, tracing, metrics and Kubernetes/OTel collectors.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience in at least one modern language such as Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts including tracing, metrics, logs and Collector configurations.
• Cloud observability experience and migration from legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Ability to read/modify complex YAML/JSON manifests.
• Strong background in software testing, debugging logs, and validating high-cardinality telemetry data.
• Familiarity with Git, PRs, and CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configuration files, environment variables, and deployment manifests.
• Run unit tests and validation suites to verify telemetry outputs.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis between NR data and OTel outputs.
• Update dashboards and troubleshooting guides for the OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection and export errors with platform engineers.
• Maintain tracking of progress, edge cases, and migration risks.

Skills

Programming languages

OpenTelemetry (OTel)

Cloud observability

YAML/JSON manifests

Testing & debugging

Git & CI/CD

Tools

OpenTelemetry Collector

Kubernetes

Git

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, adjust manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem while coordinating with global teams.

This contractor role is fully remote with USD payments and requires strong experience in OpenTelemetry concepts, tracing, metrics and Kubernetes/OTel collectors.