Observability Migration Engineer (OTel) - Remote

CXT Software; Santa Fe Capital; Remote; ARS 185,448,000 - 278,173,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

100% remote work

Argentine public holidays

Contractor payment in USD

Professional development

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications and update deployment manifests while preserving monitoring coverage across a high‑scale fintech stack.

This contract role is fully remote (UTC‑based global teams). Strong experience with Java, Python, Go, or TypeScript and hands‑on OTel knowledge are required, along with a disciplined approach to testing, dashboards, and runbooks.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in software engineering with Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts, including traces, metrics, logs, and Collector configs.
• Strong cloud observability know-how and migration from legacy systems like New Relic.
• Reading/modifying complex YAML/JSON manifests and APIs.
• Familiar with Git, PRs, and CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configs, env vars, and deployment manifests per architecture.
• Run unit tests and validation to ensure correct telemetry export.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic vs OTel outputs.
• Update dashboards and monitoring docs and runbooks.
• Investigate telemetry issues and collaborate with platform engineers.
• Track progress, edge cases, and migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Cloud observability

HTTP APIs

YAML/JSON manifests

Software testing

Git

CI/CD

Tools

OpenTelemetry Collector

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications and update deployment manifests while preserving monitoring coverage across a high‑scale fintech stack.

This contract role is fully remote (UTC‑based global teams). Strong experience with Java, Python, Go, or TypeScript and hands‑on OTel knowledge are required, along with a disciplined approach to testing, dashboards, and runbooks.