Senior Observability Engineer: OpenTelemetry Migration (Remote)

JBK Argentina; Ciudad de Mendoza; Remote; ARS 149,026,000 - 255,474,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contractor payment in USD

100% remote work

Access to Argentine public holidays

Direct involvement in modernizing core

Professional development & learning

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This remote, contractor role spans global teams, focusing on instrumenting applications, updating manifests, and validating telemetry across a high-scale fintech environment.

You will re-instrument and validate traces, metrics, and logs, while ensuring seamless monitoring coverage during the migration, with strong emphasis on documentation and runbooks for ongoing support.

Qualifications

• Proficient in at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry concepts and Collector configurations.
• Deep experience with cloud observability and migrating from legacy platforms.
• Strong understanding of HTTP, APIs, and reading/modifying YAML/JSON manifests.
• Solid testing, debugging, and telemetry validation skills.
• Familiar with modern delivery workflows (Git, PRs, CI/CD).

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update deployment manifests and environment variables per architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validation suites to ensure telemetry is correctly generated and exported.
• Perform telemetry gap analyses comparing old and new observability data.
• Update dashboards, docs, and runbooks to reflect the OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection and export issues and collaborate with platform engineers.
• Track progress, edge cases, and migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

APIs & HTTP

Testing & Debugging

Git & CI/CD

Tools

OpenTelemetry Collector

Kubernetes

YAML/JSON

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This remote, contractor role spans global teams, focusing on instrumenting applications, updating manifests, and validating telemetry across a high-scale fintech environment.

You will re-instrument and validate traces, metrics, and logs, while ensuring seamless monitoring coverage during the migration, with strong emphasis on documentation and runbooks for ongoing support.