Senior Observability Engineer - OpenTelemetry Migration

Darwoft; Argentina; Remote; ARS 127,737,000 - 212,895,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payments

100% remote work

Argentine public holidays

Professional development

Referral programs

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to drive a critical observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, adjust infrastructure manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem, ensuring continuous monitoring visibility while working remotely with global teams.

The role requires hands-on OTel expertise, strong testing skills, and experience with YAML/JSON manifests and CI/CD workflows.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry concepts (tracing, metrics, logs) and OTel Collector configurations.
• Deep experience with cloud observability and migrating off legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Solid understanding of HTTP, APIs, environment configurations, and reading/modifying YAML/JSON manifests.
• Strong background in software testing, debugging, log analysis, and validating high-cardinality telemetry data.
• Familiarity with modern software delivery workflows (Git, PRs, CI/CD pipelines).

Responsibilities

• Migrate existing instrumentation, tracing, and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configuration files, environment variables, and deployment manifests per architecture standards.
• Execute unit tests and validation suites to verify telemetry generation and export to backends.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic data against OTEL outputs.
• Assist in updating dashboards, monitoring docs, and runbooks for the OTEL architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection and export errors and collaborate with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Maintain progress tracking and report migration risks.

Skills

OpenTelemetry

Distributed tracing

Telemetry

Cloud observability

HTTP APIs

YAML/JSON manifests

Testing & debugging

Git & CI/CD

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to drive a critical observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, adjust infrastructure manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem, ensuring continuous monitoring visibility while working remotely with global teams.

The role requires hands-on OTel expertise, strong testing skills, and experience with YAML/JSON manifests and CI/CD workflows.