Remote Senior OpenTelemetry Migration Engineer

Darwoft; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 139,086,000 - 200,903,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contractor USD payment terms

100% remote work

Argentine holidays access

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration, shifting telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, update manifests, and validate outputs across a high-scale fintech-like environment.

The role is remote and contractor-based, requiring deep expertise in OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, and modern deployment practices. Collaboration with global teams is essential, with emphasis on code quality and operational visibility.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry experience, including tracing, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configurations.
• Strong cloud observability knowledge and migrating from legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Solid understanding of HTTP, APIs, and reading/modifying complex YAML/JSON manifests.
• Experience with software testing, debugging logs, and validating high-cardinality telemetry data.
• Familiarity with Git, PRs, and CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML config, environment variables, and deployment manifests.
• Run tests and validation to ensure telemetry is generated, transformed, and exported.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic data to OTel outputs.
• Assist in updating dashboards, docs, and runbooks for the OTel architecture.
• Investigate collection/export errors and collaborate with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Maintain progress tracking and report migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

OTel Collector

Git

CI/CD

YAML/JSON

Tools

OpenTelemetry

OTel Collector

Kubernetes

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration, shifting telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, update manifests, and validate outputs across a high-scale fintech-like environment.

The role is remote and contractor-based, requiring deep expertise in OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, and modern deployment practices. Collaboration with global teams is essential, with emphasis on code quality and operational visibility.