Senior Observability Engineer OpenTelemetry Migration Remote

Fullstack; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 139,086,000 - 231,811,000; Full time

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to drive an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, adjust infrastructure manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem. This is a full-time remote role with coordination across US, LATAM, and global teams.

Strong OpenTelemetry expertise is required. Eligible candidates have deep knowledge of tracing, metrics, logs, and distributed systems.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in software engineering with proficiency in at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry (OTel).
• Deep experience with cloud observability and migrating off legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Understanding of HTTP, APIs, environment-based configurations, YAML/JSON manifests.
• Experience with testing, debugging logs, and validating telemetry data.
• Familiar with Git and CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configs, env vars, and deployment manifests per architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validate telemetry backward compatibility to backends.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic vs OTel outputs.
• Update dashboards, docs, and runbooks to reflect the OTel setup.
• Investigate telemetry collection errors and diagnose root causes with platform engineers.
• Track progress, edge cases, and migration risks transparently.

Skills

Software engineering

OpenTelemetry (OTel)

Cloud observability

HTTP APIs

YAML/JSON manifests

Testing & debugging

Git & CI/CD

OTel Collector in Kubernetes

FinOps

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to drive an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, adjust infrastructure manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem. This is a full-time remote role with coordination across US, LATAM, and global teams.

Strong OpenTelemetry expertise is required. Eligible candidates have deep knowledge of tracing, metrics, logs, and distributed systems.