Remote Senior Observability Engineer - OTel Migration

Hiberus; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 131,359,000 - 185,448,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contractor agreement with USD payment

100% remote work

Access to Argentine public holidays

Direct involvement in modernizing core

Professional development & learning

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead a critical observability migration, shifting instrumentation from New Relic to an OpenTelemetry Collector-based architecture. You will instrument applications, adjust deployment manifests, and validate telemetry while ensuring continuous monitoring across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

The role emphasizes hands-on work with OpenTelemetry, cloud observability, and modern delivery workflows.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with 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.
• Strong understanding of HTTP, APIs, and reading/modifying YAML/JSON manifests.
• Solid testing, debugging logs, and validating high-cardinality telemetry data.
• Familiarity with Git and modern software delivery workflows (PRs, CI/CD).

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configs, environment variables, and deployment manifests.
• Execute unit tests and validation suites for telemetry outputs.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic vs OTel outputs.
• Assist in updating dashboards and troubleshooting guides for the OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection errors and collaborate with platform engineers.
• Maintain tracking of implementation progress and migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry (OTel) concepts

Cloud observability

YAML/JSON manifests

Software testing

Git

CI/CD pipelines

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Git

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead a critical observability migration, shifting instrumentation from New Relic to an OpenTelemetry Collector-based architecture. You will instrument applications, adjust deployment manifests, and validate telemetry while ensuring continuous monitoring across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

The role emphasizes hands-on work with OpenTelemetry, cloud observability, and modern delivery workflows.