Senior Observability Engineer — OpenTelemetry Migration

Devoted Studios; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 170,316,000 - 255,474,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contractor payment in USD

100% remote work

International team collaboration

Professional development resources

Public holidays alignment

Job summary

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

This 100% remote position engages with US/LATAM teams, focusing on reliability, dashboards, and runbooks during migration. Experience in modern languages (Java, Python, Go, JS/TS) and OTEL concepts is essential, with strong emphasis on

Qualifications

• Proven experience in software engineering with proficiency in at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry concepts, tracing, metrics, logs, and 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 complex YAML/JSON manifests.
• Strong background in testing, debugging logs, and validating high-cardinality telemetry data.
• Familiarity with modern software delivery workflows (Git, PRs, CI/CD pipelines).

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configs, environment variables, and deployment manifests per architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validation suites to ensure telemetry is correctly generated and exported.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic data to OpenTelemetry outputs.
• Update dashboards, monitoring docs, and runbooks to reflect the OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection/export errors and identify root causes with platform engineers.
• Maintain progress tracking and report migration risks clearly.

Skills

Software engineering

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Git

CI/CD

New Relic

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

YAML/JSON manifests

Git

CI/CD pipelines

New Relic

Job description

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

This 100% remote position engages with US/LATAM teams, focusing on reliability, dashboards, and runbooks during migration. Experience in modern languages (Java, Python, Go, JS/TS) and OTEL concepts is essential, with strong emphasis on