Senior Observability Engineer — OpenTelemetry Migration

Santex Group; Rosario; Remote; ARS 139,086,000 - 231,811,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Payment in USD

100% remote

International teams

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across our global stack. You will instrument applications, adjust manifests, and validate telemetry end-to-end while preserving monitoring coverage in a high-scale fintech environment.

This is a contractor, fully remote role with coordination across US, LATAM and global teams. Requirements include solid software engineering background, OpenTelemetry expertise, and strong YAML/JSON

Qualifications

• Proven experience in software engineering with proficiency in Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts including tracing, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configurations.
• Deep experience with cloud observability and migrating from legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Strong YAML/JSON manifest reading and modification skills.
• Experience with modern delivery workflows: Git, PRs, CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configs, environment vars, and deployment manifests.
• Run unit tests and validation for telemetry outputs.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic and OTel data.
• Update dashboards, docs, and runbooks.
• Investigate export errors and coordinate with platform engineers.
• Track progress and migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Observability

Cloud

YAML/JSON

Git/CI/CD

Tools

OpenTelemetry Collector

Kubernetes

YAML/JSON manifests

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across our global stack. You will instrument applications, adjust manifests, and validate telemetry end-to-end while preserving monitoring coverage in a high-scale fintech environment.

This is a contractor, fully remote role with coordination across US, LATAM and global teams. Requirements include solid software engineering background, OpenTelemetry expertise, and strong YAML/JSON