Senior Observability Engineer OpenTelemetry Migration Remote

Oowlish; Tandil; Remote; ARS 127,737,000 - 212,895,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Payment in USD

Remote work

Argentine holidays access

Learning platforms

Referral programs

Professional development

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry in a global remote setting. You will re-instrument applications, adjust manifests, and ensure complete telemetry coverage across a high-scale fintech ecosystem, with a focus on reliability and measurable outcomes.

Responsibilities include migrating instrumentation, validating configs, updating dashboards, and collaborating with platform engineers to resolve complex edge cases.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in software engineering with one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JS/TS).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry experience across tracing, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configurations.
• Strong cloud observability background and migration from legacy platforms like New Relic.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across applications and infra.
• Update YAML configs, env vars, and deployment manifests per architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validate telemetry end-to-end to backends.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic and OTel outputs.
• Update dashboards and runbooks to reflect the OTel architecture.
• Troubleshoot telemetry collection/export issues with platform engineers.
• Track progress, edge cases, and migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Git

CI/CD

Tools

OpenTelemetry Collector

Kubernetes

YAML/JSON manifests

New Relic

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry in a global remote setting. You will re-instrument applications, adjust manifests, and ensure complete telemetry coverage across a high-scale fintech ecosystem, with a focus on reliability and measurable outcomes.

Responsibilities include migrating instrumentation, validating configs, updating dashboards, and collaborating with platform engineers to resolve complex edge cases.