Remote Senior OpenTelemetry Engineer — Observability Migration

Ubq; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 103,480,000 - 206,960,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payment

Remote work

Public holidays (Argentina)

Observability modernization project

Professional development

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to drive the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry, re-instrumenting applications and updating infrastructure manifests for seamless monitoring across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

You will validate telemetry outputs, collaborate with global teams, and contribute to dashboards and runbooks, ensuring continuity of monitoring during the migration window.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in software engineering with at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry concepts, including tracing, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configurations.
• Cloud observability experience and migrating off legacy platforms (e.g., New Relic).
• Strong knowledge of HTTP, APIs, environment-based configurations, and YAML/JSON manifests.
• Strong testing, debugging, and validation of high-cardinality telemetry data.
• Familiarity with Git and CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML env vars and deployment manifests per architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validation suites to ensure correct telemetry output and backends export.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic data to OTel outputs.
• Update dashboards, docs, and runbooks to reflect OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection/export errors and collaborate with platform engineers.
• Maintain progress tracking and risk reporting for migration.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

Tools

OpenTelemetry (OTel)

YAML/JSON manifests

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to drive the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry, re-instrumenting applications and updating infrastructure manifests for seamless monitoring across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

You will validate telemetry outputs, collaborate with global teams, and contribute to dashboards and runbooks, ensuring continuity of monitoring during the migration window.