Senior Observability Engineer - OpenTelemetry Migration (Remote)

Bluelight Consulting, Llc; Tandil; Remote; ARS 149,026,000 - 255,474,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Payment in USD

Remote work

Argentine holidays

Modernization project

Professional development

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across cloud-native apps. You will instrument services, adjust manifests, and validate telemetry end-to-end in a high-scale fintech environment.

This remote, contractor role demands strong code skills in Java/Python/Go/JS, deep OTEL expertise, and familiarity with Kubernetes, CI/CD, and dashboards.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with Java, Python, Go, or JS/TS.
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry (OTel) concepts and Collector configurations.
• Deep experience with cloud observability and migrating off legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Strong understanding of HTTP, APIs, and reading/modifying complex YAML/JSON manifests.
• Solid background in software testing, debugging, and validating high-cardinality telemetry data.
• Familiarity with modern software delivery workflows (Git, PRs, CI/CD).

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation, tracing, and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configuration files, environment variables, and deployment manifests.
• Execute unit tests and validations to ensure telemetry is generated and exported correctly.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic data to OTEL outputs.
• Assist in updating dashboards, monitoring docs, and runbooks for OTEL architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection errors and identify root causes with platform engineers.
• Maintain tracking and reporting of progress, edge cases, and migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Distributed tracing

Cloud observability

HTTP APIs

YAML/JSON manifests

Git/CI/CD

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

YAML

JSON

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across cloud-native apps. You will instrument services, adjust manifests, and validate telemetry end-to-end in a high-scale fintech environment.

This remote, contractor role demands strong code skills in Java/Python/Go/JS, deep OTEL expertise, and familiarity with Kubernetes, CI/CD, and dashboards.