Senior Observability Engineer — OpenTelemetry (Remote)

JP Morgan Chase; Tandil; Remote; ARS 139,086,000 - 185,448,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payment

Remote work

Public holidays

Professional development

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead a critical observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. The role is remote and contractor-based, coordinating with US/LATAM teams to instrument, validate, and deliver seamless telemetry coverage across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

You will re-instrument applications, update manifests, run validation tests, and contribute to dashboards and runbooks while maintaining operational visibility throughout the migration window.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in software engineering with proficiency in at least one modern language.
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry concepts, including tracing, metrics, logs, and collectors.
• Cloud observability experience and transitioning from legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Strong understanding of YAML/JSON manifests, APIs, and environment-based configurations.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript

TypeScript

Tools

OpenTelemetry

New Relic

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead a critical observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. The role is remote and contractor-based, coordinating with US/LATAM teams to instrument, validate, and deliver seamless telemetry coverage across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

You will re-instrument applications, update manifests, run validation tests, and contribute to dashboards and runbooks while maintaining operational visibility throughout the migration window.