Remote Senior Observability Migration Engineer (OTel)

Opsbrasil Serviços Cloud Ltda; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 185,448,000 - 247,265,000; Part 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 the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will instrument applications, update manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem while ensuring continuous monitoring coverage.

You will collaborate with global teams, review dashboards, and drive best practices in distributed tracing, metrics, and logs using OpenTelemetry collectors and Kubernetes, with full-time contractor obligations and remote

Qualifications

• Proven experience in software engineering with proficiency in at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry concepts, including distributed tracing, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configurations.
• Deep experience with cloud observability paradigms and transitioning off legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Solid understanding of HTTP, APIs, environment-based configurations, and reading/modifying complex YAML/JSON manifests.
• Strong background in software testing, debugging log analysis, and validating high-cardinality telemetry data.
• Familiarity with modern software delivery workflows (Git, PRs, CI/CD pipelines).

Responsibilities

• Migrate existing instrumentation, tracing, and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configuration files, environment variables, and deployment manifests according to established architecture standards.
• Execute unit tests and validation suites to verify that telemetry is accurately generated, transformed, and exported to target backends.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis, comparing existing New Relic data against OTel outputs to identify missing traces, metrics, logs, or resource attributes.
• Assist in updating dashboards, monitoring documentation, and troubleshooting guides to reflect the OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection and export errors, identifying root causes and collaborating with core platform engineers on complex edge cases.
• Maintain clear tracking and reporting of implementation progress, edge cases, and potential migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Distributed tracing

CI/CD

Git

YAML/JSON

Tools

OTel Collector

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry in Kubernetes

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will instrument applications, update manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem while ensuring continuous monitoring coverage.

You will collaborate with global teams, review dashboards, and drive best practices in distributed tracing, metrics, and logs using OpenTelemetry collectors and Kubernetes, with full-time contractor obligations and remote