Remote Senior Observability Migration Engineer (OTel)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Contractor payment in USD

100% remote work

Argentine public holidays

Professional development resources

Job summary

Darwoft seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to an OpenTelemetry-based architecture. You will re-instrument applications, adjust infrastructure manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

This is a fully remote, contractor role with global coordination. You will work with Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript, focusing on robust tracing, metrics, and logs, while collaborating with platform engineers to maintain

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience in at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JS/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, environment configs, and reading/modifying YAML/JSON manifests.
• Solid background in testing, debugging logs, and validating high-cardinality telemetry data.
• Familiarity with modern software delivery workflows (Git, PRs, CI/CD).

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML files, environment variables, and deployment manifests per architecture standards.
• Run tests and validation suites to ensure telemetry is correctly generated and exported.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic data to OTEL outputs.
• Update dashboards, monitoring docs, and runbooks to reflect the new architecture.
• Investigate export errors and collaborate with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Maintain progress tracking and report migration risks clearly.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

Tools

OpenTelemetry (OTel)

Kubernetes

YAML/JSON manifests

Git & CI/CD

Job description

Darwoft seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to an OpenTelemetry-based architecture. You will re-instrument applications, adjust infrastructure manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

This is a fully remote, contractor role with global coordination. You will work with Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript, focusing on robust tracing, metrics, and logs, while collaborating with platform engineers to maintain