Senior Observability Engineer - OpenTelemetry (Remote)

Xbow; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 127,737,000 - 212,895,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Payment in USD

100% remote work

Argentine public holidays access

Professional development

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across our global platform. You will re-instrument applications, update manifests, and validate telemetry outputs.

This remote contractor role requires strong cloud observability experience, YAML/JSON mastery, and collaboration with cross-functional teams across US, LATAM, and global time zones.

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 concepts: tracing, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configurations.
• Deep experience with cloud observability and migrating from legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Strong understanding of HTTP, APIs, environment configurations, and YAML/JSON manifests reading/modification.
• Solid background in testing, debugging log analysis, and validating high-cardinality telemetry data.
• Familiarity with Git and CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configuration files, environment variables, and deployment manifests per architecture standards.
• Execute unit tests and validation suites to verify telemetry generation, transformation, and export to backends.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic data against OpenTelemetry outputs.
• Assist in updating dashboards, monitoring docs, and runbooks to reflect the OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection and export errors, identifying root causes and collaborating with core platform engineers on edge cases.
• Maintain tracking and reporting of implementation progress, edge cases, and migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

YAML/JSON manifests

Git & CI/CD

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across our global platform. You will re-instrument applications, update manifests, and validate telemetry outputs.

This remote contractor role requires strong cloud observability experience, YAML/JSON mastery, and collaboration with cross-functional teams across US, LATAM, and global time zones.