Senior Observability Engineer - OpenTelemetry (Remote)

Outlier; Tandil; Remote; ARS 169,994,000 - 262,719,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payments

Remote work (global)

Argentine public holidays

Professional development

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking 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 environment while coordinating with global teams.

This contractor role offers 100% remote work, USD payment, and exposure to modern cloud observability practices. You will work with Java/Python/Go/JS ecosystems and contribute to core platform reliability.

Qualifications

• Must have hands-on software engineering experience with one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JS/TS).
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry and telemetry collection concepts.
• Experience migrating observability tooling and dashboards.
• Strong testing and debugging of telemetry data.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation from legacy to OpenTelemetry across applications and infra.
• Update deployment manifests and environment configurations to match architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validate telemetry outputs to backends.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing old and new outputs.
• Update dashboards and runbooks to reflect the OTEL architecture.
• Investigate collection/export issues and collaborate with platform engineers.
• Track progress, risks, and maintain migration documentation.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry concepts

Distributed tracing

Tools

OpenTelemetry Collector

Kubernetes

YAML/JSON manifests

Git & CI/CD

Job description

Darwoft is seeking 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 environment while coordinating with global teams.

This contractor role offers 100% remote work, USD payment, and exposure to modern cloud observability practices. You will work with Java/Python/Go/JS ecosystems and contribute to core platform reliability.