Remote Senior Observability Engineer — OTel Migration

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

Benefits offered by this job

USD payment

100% remote

Argentine public holidays

Professional development

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead a critical observability migration from New Relic to an OpenTelemetry-based Collector architecture. You will re-instrument applications, adjust manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech environment while coordinating with global teams.

The role emphasizes hands-on migration, testing, and documentation, with a focus on preserving monitoring coverage during the transition.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in software engineering with 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 away from legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Solid understanding of HTTP, APIs, environment-based configurations, and YAML/JSON manifests.
• Strong background in software testing, debugging log analysis, and validating telemetry data.
• Familiarity with modern software delivery workflows (Git, PRs, CI/CD).

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation, tracing, and telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configs, environment vars, and deployment manifests.
• Run unit tests and validations to ensure telemetry is correctly generated and exported.
• Perform telemetry gap analyses comparing NR and OTel outputs.
• Assist in updating dashboards, docs, and runbooks for the new architecture.
• Investigate and resolve telemetry collection/export errors with platform engineers.
• Maintain tracking of progress, edge cases, and migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Tools

OpenTelemetry

New Relic

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead a critical observability migration from New Relic to an OpenTelemetry-based Collector architecture. You will re-instrument applications, adjust manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech environment while coordinating with global teams.

The role emphasizes hands-on migration, testing, and documentation, with a focus on preserving monitoring coverage during the transition.