Remote Senior Engineer - Observability Migration (OTel)

Ualá; Tandil; Remote; ARS 185,448,000 - 231,811,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Contractor agreement with USD payment

100% remote work

Professional development & referral

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, adjust manifests, and validate telemetry end-to-end across a high-scale fintech ecosystem in a remote global setting.

The role requires strong software engineering experience and hands-on OTel expertise, with collaboration across US/LATAM teams. This is a contractor position with USD payments and 100% remote work.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with 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; understanding HTTP/APIs and environment-based configurations.
• Experience with software testing, debugging logs, and validating high-cardinality telemetry data.
• Familiarity with Git, PRs, CI/CD pipelines.

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.
• Conduct telemetry gap analyses comparing New Relic data to OTel outputs.
• Update dashboards, monitoring docs, and runbooks for the OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection/export errors and collaborate with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Maintain progress tracking and risk reporting for migration.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

Tools

OpenTelemetry (OTel) Collector configurations

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, adjust manifests, and validate telemetry end-to-end across a high-scale fintech ecosystem in a remote global setting.

The role requires strong software engineering experience and hands-on OTel expertise, with collaboration across US/LATAM teams. This is a contractor position with USD payments and 100% remote work.