Senior Observability Engineer - OpenTelemetry, Remote

JBK Argentina; Municipio de Rincón de los Sauces; Remote; ARS 149,026,000 - 255,474,000; Part time

Job summary

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

The role requires strong programming skills (Java/Python/Go/TS), deep OpenTelemetry experience, and solid debugging and testing capabilities. You will collaborate with global teams and maintain operational visibility during migration.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience in at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or TypeScript).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts including tracing, metrics, logs, and collectors.
• Strong cloud observability experience and migrating away from legacy platforms (New Relic).
• Solid understanding of HTTP, APIs, and reading/modifying YAML/JSON manifests.
• Strong testing, debugging, and telemetry data validation skills.
• Familiarity with Git and CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across apps and infra.
• Update YAML files, env vars, and deployment manifests per architecture.
• Run unit tests and validation to ensure telemetry is generated and exported.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing NR data to OTel outputs.
• Update dashboards, monitoring docs, and runbooks.
• Investigate telemetry collection errors with platform engineers.
• Track progress, edge cases, and migration risks.

Skills

OpenTelemetry

Distributed tracing

Cloud observability

Git CI/CD

YAML/JSON

Debugging/Testing

HTTP/APIs

Tools

OTel Collector

New Relic

Job description

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

The role requires strong programming skills (Java/Python/Go/TS), deep OpenTelemetry experience, and solid debugging and testing capabilities. You will collaborate with global teams and maintain operational visibility during migration.