Remote Senior Observability Engineer – OTel Migration

Outlier; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 185,448,000 - 278,173,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payment

100% remote work

Argentine public holidays

Professional development

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across our global stack. This remote, contractor role requires deep software engineering expertise and hands-on instrumentation experience.

You will re-instrument applications, update manifests, validate telemetry, and ensure monitoring coverage remains intact while migrating to OTel in a high-scale fintech environment.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with proficiency in 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 from legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Strong understanding of HTTP, APIs, and reading/modifying complex YAML/JSON manifests.
• Solid background in software testing, debugging logs, and validating telemetry data.
• Familiarity with Git and CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configuration files, environment variables, and deployment manifests.
• Run unit tests and validation suites to ensure correct telemetry generation and export.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis by comparing New Relic data to OTel outputs.
• Assist in updating dashboards, monitoring docs, and runbooks for the OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection and export errors and collaborate with core platform engineers on edge cases.
• Maintain progress tracking and report migration risks.

Tools

OTel Collector

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across our global stack. This remote, contractor role requires deep software engineering expertise and hands-on instrumentation experience.

You will re-instrument applications, update manifests, validate telemetry, and ensure monitoring coverage remains intact while migrating to OTel in a high-scale fintech environment.