Remote Senior Observability Engineer – OTel Migration

Bluelightconsulting; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 155,220,000 - 258,701,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payment

Remote work

Argentine public holidays

Professional development

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead a critical observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, update manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem in a fully remote, contractor capacity.

The role requires strong experience with OTEL concepts, modern languages, and cloud observability, with coordination across US, LATAM, and global teams.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with one modern language (Java, Python, Go or TS).
• Hands-on with OpenTelemetry concepts, tracing, metrics and logs.
• Experience migrating from legacy telemetry to OTEL in cloud environments.
• Reading/modifying complex YAML/JSON manifests and configs.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configs, env vars and deployment manifests per standards.
• Run unit tests and validation to ensure correct telemetry generation and export.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic vs OTEL outputs.
• Update dashboards, docs, and runbooks to reflect OTEL architecture.
• Troubleshoot telemetry collection/export errors with platform engineers.
• Track progress, edge cases and migration risks transparently.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Cloud observability

HTTP/REST

Git

YAML/JSON

Tools

OpenTelemetry Collector

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Git

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead a critical observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, update manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem in a fully remote, contractor capacity.

The role requires strong experience with OTEL concepts, modern languages, and cloud observability, with coordination across US, LATAM, and global teams.