Senior Observability Engineer - OpenTelemetry Migration (Remote)

CXT Software; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 149,026,000 - 234,184,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Payment in USD

Argentine public holidays

Professional development

Referral programs

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, update infrastructure manifests, and ensure comprehensive monitoring across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

This is a remote, contractor role with coordination across US, LATAM, and global teams. The ideal candidate has hands-on OpenTelemetry experience, strong software testing skills, and familiarity with Kubernetes and modern delivery

Qualifications

• Must have experience in software engineering with at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry (OTel) concepts including distributed tracing, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configurations.
• Deep experience with cloud observability and migrating from legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Strong understanding of HTTP, APIs, environment-based configurations, and reading/modifying YAML/JSON manifests.
• Solid background in software testing, debugging logs, and validating high-cardinality telemetry data.
• Familiarity with modern software delivery workflows (Git, PRs, CI/CD pipelines).

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation, tracing, and telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configs, environment variables, and deployment manifests.
• Run unit tests and validation suites to confirm telemetry correctness across backends.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic data with OTel outputs.
• Update dashboards, docs, and runbooks to reflect OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection/export errors and collaborate with platform engineers.
• Track 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 the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, update infrastructure manifests, and ensure comprehensive monitoring across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

This is a remote, contractor role with coordination across US, LATAM, and global teams. The ideal candidate has hands-on OpenTelemetry experience, strong software testing skills, and familiarity with Kubernetes and modern delivery