Remote Senior Observability & Telemetry Engineer (OTel)

Werben HR LLC; Neuquén; Remote; ARS 185,448,000 - 278,173,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Contractor payment in USD

100% remote work

Argentine public holidays

Professional development

Referral programs

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, adjust manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

As a contractor, you will collaborate with global teams and ensure zero loss of monitoring coverage during the migration window, while contributing to documentation, runbooks, and dashboards to reflect the new OTEL-based architecture.

Qualifications

• Experience in software engineering with Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts including tracing, metrics, and logs.
• Deep experience with cloud observability and migrating from legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Strong understanding of HTTP, APIs, and reading/modifying YAML/JSON manifests.
• Solid background in software testing, debugging logs, and validating telemetry data.
• Familiarity with modern software delivery workflows (Git, PRs, CI/CD).
• Nice-to-have: OTel collectors in Kubernetes or containerized environments.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configs, environment variables, and deployment manifests.
• Run unit tests and validation to ensure telemetry is correctly generated and exported.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis and compare data across platforms.
• Update dashboards, monitoring docs, and runbooks for the OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection/export errors and identify root causes.
• Track progress and communicate migration risks and status.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Cloud observability

YAML/JSON

Git

CI/CD

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

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, adjust manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

As a contractor, you will collaborate with global teams and ensure zero loss of monitoring coverage during the migration window, while contributing to documentation, runbooks, and dashboards to reflect the new OTEL-based architecture.