Remote Senior Observability Engineer — OTel Migration

Spotter; Tandil; Remote; ARS 127,737,000 - 255,474,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payment for contractor

100% remote work

Global team collaboration

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 and update infrastructure, ensuring accurate telemetry across a high-scale system.

The role requires hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry, cloud observability, and modern delivery workflows. This is a remote, contractor position supporting global teams and US/LATAM coordination.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience in one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JS/TS).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts: tracing, metrics, logs, OTel Collector.
• Experience migrating observability from legacy platforms to modern architectures.
• Strong YAML/JSON manifest editing and environment-based configurations.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation from legacy to OpenTelemetry in applications and infra.
• Update deployment manifests and environment variables per architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validation to ensure telemetry is correctly generated and exported.
• Perform gap analysis between old data and OTel outputs to identify missing traces, metrics, or logs.
• Assist in updating dashboards and runbooks to reflect the new telemetry model.
• Investigate telemetry collection/export errors and collaborate with platform engineers.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

YAML/JSON manifests

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 and update infrastructure, ensuring accurate telemetry across a high-scale system.

The role requires hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry, cloud observability, and modern delivery workflows. This is a remote, contractor position supporting global teams and US/LATAM coordination.