Senior Observability Engineer - OpenTelemetry, Remote

Bluelight; Neuquén; Remote; ARS 127,737,000 - 234,184,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payments

Remote work

Public holidays

Job summary

Darwoft seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry in a fully remote contractor role. You will instrument applications, update manifests, validate telemetry, and ensure monitoring coverage across a large FinTech ecosystem while collaborating with US/LATAM teams.

Responsibilities include migrating instrumentation, updating configs, running tests, and maintaining documentation for the OTel architecture.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineer with proficiency in modern languages (Java, Python, Go, or JS/TS).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts: tracing, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configurations.
• Experience with cloud observability and migrating from legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Strong understanding of HTTP/APIs, environment configurations, and YAML/JSON manifests.
• Background in testing, log analysis, and validating high-cardinality telemetry.
• Familiar with Git, PRs, and CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAMLs, env vars, and deployment manifests per architecture.
• Run unit tests and validation to ensure correct telemetry export.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic vs OTel outputs.
• Help update dashboards, docs, and runbooks for the OTel setup.
• Investigate export errors and collaborate with platform engineers on edge cases.

Skills

Java/Python/Go/JS/TS

OpenTelemetry (OTel)

Cloud observability

HTTP/APIs/YAML manifests

Testing/debugging telemetry

Git/CI-CD

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Darwoft seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry in a fully remote contractor role. You will instrument applications, update manifests, validate telemetry, and ensure monitoring coverage across a large FinTech ecosystem while collaborating with US/LATAM teams.

Responsibilities include migrating instrumentation, updating configs, running tests, and maintaining documentation for the OTel architecture.