Senior Observability Engineer — OpenTelemetry Migration

Werben HR LLC; Tandil; Remote; ARS 127,737,000 - 255,474,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contractor paid in USD

100% remote work (international)

Argentine public holidays access

Professional development & learning

Job summary

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

You will collaborate with global teams, ensure end-to-end coverage, and maintain documentation and runbooks while keeping monitoring uninterrupted during the migration window. Advanced English required; remote global coordination across US/LATAM.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience in at least one of: Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts including tracing, metrics, logs, and Collector configs.
• Experience migrating from legacy observability platforms to modern stacks.
• Ability to read/modify complex YAML/JSON manifests.
• Strong testing, debugging, and validation of telemetry data.
• Familiarity with Git and CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configuration files, environment variables, and deployment manifests.
• Execute unit tests and validation suites for telemetry outputs.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis against OTEL outputs.
• Assist in updating dashboards, monitoring docs, and runbooks for the OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection/export errors with platform engineers.
• Maintain tracking of implementation progress, edge cases, and migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Cloud observability

YAML/JSON manifests

Testing & debugging

Git & CI/CD

Tools

OTel Collector

Kubernetes

Job description

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

You will collaborate with global teams, ensure end-to-end coverage, and maintain documentation and runbooks while keeping monitoring uninterrupted during the migration window. Advanced English required; remote global coordination across US/LATAM.