Senior Observability Engineer — OpenTelemetry Migration (Remote)

Noxx; Tandil; Remote; ARS 127,737,000 - 202,250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payment

Remote work

Argentine holidays

Modernization project

Professional development

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry in a remote, global capacity. You will re-instrument applications, adjust manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

You will collaborate with US/LATAM teams, ensure tests pass, and maintain monitoring coverage during migration. This is a contractor role paying in USD.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience in at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts, including distributed tracing, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configurations.
• Experience migrating observability from legacy platforms to OpenTelemetry.
• Strong understanding of HTTP, APIs, and reading/modifying YAML/JSON manifests.
• Experience with testing and debugging telemetry data.
• Familiarity with Git and CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Migrate existing instrumentation, tracing, and telemetry configurations from legacy systems to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configs, environment variables, and deployment manifests per architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validation suites to ensure telemetry is correctly produced and exported.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis, comparing old data to OpenTelemetry outputs to find missing traces, metrics, or logs.
• Update dashboards, monitoring docs, and runbooks to reflect the new OTEL architecture.
• Investigate export errors and coordinate with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Maintain clear progress tracking and report migration risks throughout the project.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

HTTP APIs

YAML/JSON manifests

Git / CI/CD

Testing & debugging

Cloud observability

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry Collector

New Relic migration experience

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry in a remote, global capacity. You will re-instrument applications, adjust manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

You will collaborate with US/LATAM teams, ensure tests pass, and maintain monitoring coverage during migration. This is a contractor role paying in USD.