Senior Observability Engineer - OTel Migration (Remote)

Bord; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 139,086,000 - 231,811,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Payment in USD

100% remote work

Argentine public holidays

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will instrument applications, adjust Kubernetes manifests, and validate telemetry outputs across a high-scale fintech environment.

As a contractor with 100% remote work and coordination with US/LATAM/global teams, you will ensure seamless monitoring coverage while contributing to dashboards, runbooks, and troubleshooting guides.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on with OpenTelemetry concepts: tracing, metrics, logs, OTel Collector configurations.
• Strong background in cloud observability and migration from legacy platforms (e.g., New Relic).
• Ability to read/modify complex YAML/JSON manifests; APIs and environment configs.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across applications and infra.
• Update deployment manifests and environment variables per architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validation to ensure telemetry is emitted correctly to backends.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing NR and OTel outputs; identify missing traces/metrics/logs.
• Update dashboards and runbooks; assist in troubleshooting and documentation.

Skills

Programming languages

OpenTelemetry (OTel)

Cloud observability

YAML/JSON manifests

Testing & debugging telemetry

Git & CI/CD

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will instrument applications, adjust Kubernetes manifests, and validate telemetry outputs across a high-scale fintech environment.

As a contractor with 100% remote work and coordination with US/LATAM/global teams, you will ensure seamless monitoring coverage while contributing to dashboards, runbooks, and troubleshooting guides.