Senior Observability Engineer — OpenTelemetry Migration

Fullstack; Tandil; Remote; ARS 185,448,000 - 278,173,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Contractor payment in USD

100% remote work in international team

Public holidays in Argentina

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry in a contractor capacity. You will re-instrument applications and update infrastructure manifests while ensuring comprehensive monitoring across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

The role is fully remote with global coordination and requires advanced English. You will collaborate with platform engineers to validate telemetry and maintain operational visibility during the migration.

Qualifications

• Must have proven software engineering experience with at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry concepts including 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, YAML/JSON manifests, and environment-based configurations.
• Strong testing, debugging, and validation of telemetry data.
• Familiar 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.
• Run unit tests and validation to ensure accurate telemetry generation and export.

Skills

OpenTelemetry (OTel)

Cloud observability

YAML/JSON manifests

Distributed tracing

Unit testing

Git & CI/CD

Languages: Java, Python, Go, JS/TS

Tools

OpenTelemetry Collector

Kubernetes

New Relic

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry in a contractor capacity. You will re-instrument applications and update infrastructure manifests while ensuring comprehensive monitoring across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

The role is fully remote with global coordination and requires advanced English. You will collaborate with platform engineers to validate telemetry and maintain operational visibility during the migration.