Senior Observability Engineer: OpenTelemetry Migration (Remote)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Payment in USD

Remote work

Public holidays access

Job summary

Darwoft seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, adjust manifests, validate telemetry, and ensure continuous monitoring across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

You will collaborate with global teams, support dashboards, and deliver robust telemetry coverage during the migration window. Strong OTel and cloud observability experience are required.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with Java, Python, Go or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts including tracing, metrics and logs.
• Experience with migrating telemetry off legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Strong understanding of YAML/JSON manifests and APIs.
• Background in testing, debugging logs, and telemetry validation.
• Familiarity with modern delivery workflows (Git, PRs, CI/CD).

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry config from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAMLs, env vars, and deployment manifests per architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validate telemetry end-to-end to backends.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis between data sources and OTel outputs.
• Update dashboards, docs, and runbooks for the new architecture.
• Investigate export errors and coordinate with platform engineers.
• Track progress, risks, and edge cases during migration.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Distributed tracing

Cloud observability

Tools

OpenTelemetry (OTel)

Kubernetes

Git & CI/CD

Job description

Darwoft seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, adjust manifests, validate telemetry, and ensure continuous monitoring across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

You will collaborate with global teams, support dashboards, and deliver robust telemetry coverage during the migration window. Strong OTel and cloud observability experience are required.