Senior Observability Engineer — OpenTelemetry Migration

Outlier; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 127,737,000 - 234,184,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work worldwide

USD payment

Job summary

Darwoft seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to an OpenTelemetry-based architecture. You will re-instrument applications, adjust manifests, and ensure telemetry coverage remains intact across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

Role requires deep OTel knowledge, strong testing and debugging skills, and collaboration with global teams. This is a fully remote contractor position with USD payments and flexible collaboration hours.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with one or more modern languages (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry experience: tracing, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configurations.
• Strong cloud observability background and migration from legacy platforms like New Relic.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry as per architecture.
• Update YAML configurations, env vars, and deployment manifests.
• Run unit tests and validations to ensure correct telemetry generation and export to backends.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic data with OTel outputs to identify missing traces, metrics, logs, or resource attributes.
• Assist in updating dashboards, docs, and runbooks to reflect OTel architecture.

Skills

OpenTelemetry

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

Cloud

Tools

OpenTelemetry Collector

Kubernetes

Git/CI/CD

Job description

Darwoft seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to an OpenTelemetry-based architecture. You will re-instrument applications, adjust manifests, and ensure telemetry coverage remains intact across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

Role requires deep OTel knowledge, strong testing and debugging skills, and collaboration with global teams. This is a fully remote contractor position with USD payments and flexible collaboration hours.