Remote OpenTelemetry Migration Engineer

Tuxcare Inc.; Tandil; Remote; ARS 127,737,000 - 212,895,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payment for contractor work

100% remote work

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This global contractor role requires coordinating with US/LATAM teams while re-instrumenting applications and updating infrastructure manifests to ensure seamless telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

You will validate telemetry outputs, gaps, and back-end exports, while improving dashboards, documentation, and runbooks.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry concepts including tracing, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configurations.
• Strong background in cloud observability and migrating from legacy platforms.
• Reading/modifying complex YAML/JSON manifests and integrating with deployment processes.
• Experience with software testing, debugging log analysis, and validating telemetry data.
• Familiarity with modern software delivery workflows (Git, PRs, CI/CD).

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry configurations from legacy systems to OpenTelemetry.
• Update environment variables and deployment manifests per architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validation suites to ensure correct telemetry export to backends.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis to identify missing traces, metrics, logs, or attributes.
• Update dashboards and runbooks to reflect the new OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection errors and collaborate with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Maintain progress tracking and document risks and mitigations.

Skills

OpenTelemetry (OTel)

Distributed tracing

Cloud observability

HTTP APIs

YAML/JSON manifests

Testing & debugging

Git & CI/CD

Tools

Git

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This global contractor role requires coordinating with US/LATAM teams while re-instrumenting applications and updating infrastructure manifests to ensure seamless telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

You will validate telemetry outputs, gaps, and back-end exports, while improving dashboards, documentation, and runbooks.