Senior Observability Engineer - OpenTelemetry Lead (Remote)

JBK Argentina; Rosario; Remote; ARS 139,086,000 - 200,903,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

100% remote

Contractor paid in USD

Access to Argentine public holidays

Global cross-team collaboration

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will instrument applications, adjust manifests, and validate telemetry end-to-end across a high-scale fintech infra. This is a fully remote, contractor role coordinating with US/LATAM/global teams.

The role emphasizes hands-on OTel expertise, cloud observability, and strong testing/data validation. English is required, with a C1 level and collaboration across multiple time zones.

Qualifications

• Must have hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts, tracing, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configurations.
• Experience with migrating telemetry from legacy platforms to OTel is required.
• Strong understanding of HTTP, APIs, and YAML/JSON manifests.
• Familiarity with modern software delivery workflows (Git, PRs, CI/CD).
• Proven software engineering experience in at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JS/TS).

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry configurations from legacy tools to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML config files, env vars, and deployment manifests to match architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validation suites to ensure telemetry is correctly generated and exported.
• Perform telemetry gap analyses comparing New Relic data to OTel outputs.
• Update dashboards, docs, and runbooks to reflect the OTel architecture.
• Investigate collection/export errors and collaborate with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Maintain progress tracking and report migration risks.

Skills

OpenTelemetry

Distributed tracing

HTTP APIs

CI/CD

Testing & debugging

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OTel Collector

Tools

OpenTelemetry Collector

Kubernetes

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will instrument applications, adjust manifests, and validate telemetry end-to-end across a high-scale fintech infra. This is a fully remote, contractor role coordinating with US/LATAM/global teams.

The role emphasizes hands-on OTel expertise, cloud observability, and strong testing/data validation. English is required, with a C1 level and collaboration across multiple time zones.