Senior Observability Engineer - OpenTelemetry (Remote)

Maxit Consulting - Max Corporate Group; Tandil; Remote; ARS 127,737,000 - 255,474,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Payment in USD

100% remote

Remote coordination across LATAM/US

Professional development

Job summary

Darwoft, a software factory, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across our global stack. You will re-instrument applications, adjust manifests, and validate telemetry end-to-end while preserving monitoring coverage during the migration window.

You will collaborate with platform engineers, write tests, and keep dashboards and runbooks up to date.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with at least one modern language.
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts including tracing, metrics and logs.
• Experience migrating off legacy platforms to OpenTelemetry.
• Good understanding of YAML/JSON manifests and environment configs.
• Strong testing, debugging and telemetry validation skills.
• Familiar with Git, PRs, and CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configs, environment vars and deployment manifests.
• Run unit tests and validation suites for telemetry accuracy.
• Perform telemetry gap analyses comparing New Relic vs OTel outputs.
• Update dashboards, docs and runbooks for the new architecture.
• Investigate export errors and collaborate with platform engineers.
• Track progress, risks and edge cases during migration.

Skills

OpenTelemetry

Telemetry

Distributed tracing

Go / Java / Python / TS

YAML/JSON manifests

CI/CD pipelines

Git / PRs

Debugging logs

HTTP / APIs

Kubernetes (nice-to-have)

Tools

OTel Collector

Kubernetes

New Relic replacement tooling

Job description

Darwoft, a software factory, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across our global stack. You will re-instrument applications, adjust manifests, and validate telemetry end-to-end while preserving monitoring coverage during the migration window.

You will collaborate with platform engineers, write tests, and keep dashboards and runbooks up to date.