Senior Observability Engineer — OpenTelemetry (Remote)

Bluelightconsulting; Neuquén; Remote; ARS 127,737,000 - 255,474,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contractor agreement

100% remote

Public holidays (Argentina)

Professional development

Exposure to fintech observability

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This remote role supports global teams and requires strong telemetry, instrumentation, and software engineering skills across Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript.

You will re-instrument applications, update manifests, validate telemetry outputs, and ensure continuous monitoring coverage. Collaboration with infrastructure and platform engineers is essential to success.

Qualifications

• Must have hands-on experience with at least one modern language and OpenTelemetry concepts.
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry (OTel) including tracing, metrics and logs.
• Deep experience with cloud observability and migrating from legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Familiarity with reading/modifying complex YAML/JSON manifests and modern delivery workflows (Git, PRs, CI/CD).

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configuration files, environment variables, and deployment manifests.
• Run unit tests and validation to ensure telemetry is exported correctly.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis and compare data between systems.
• Update dashboards and runbooks to reflect the OTel architecture.
• Troubleshoot telemetry collection and export errors with platform engineers.
• Maintain progress tracking and risk reporting.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Cloud observability

Git

Kubernetes

Tools

Git

Yaml/JSON manifests

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This remote role supports global teams and requires strong telemetry, instrumentation, and software engineering skills across Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript.

You will re-instrument applications, update manifests, validate telemetry outputs, and ensure continuous monitoring coverage. Collaboration with infrastructure and platform engineers is essential to success.