Senior Observability Engineer - OTel Migration (Remote)

Pasito; Municipio de Rincón de los Sauces; Remote; ARS 139.086.000 - 231.811.000; Teilzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Remote work (international)

Payment in USD

Argentine holidays

Professional development

Direct involvement in modernization

Zusammenfassung

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This remote contractor role supports global teams and demands strong telemetry expertise across tracing, metrics, and logs, plus hands-on YAML/manifest updates and testing.

You will work with modern languages and CI/CD practices to ensure uninterrupted monitoring coverage during migration. The role emphasizes instrumenting applications, validating telemetry outputs, and coordinating

Qualifikationen

• Proven experience in software engineering with proficiency in at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry (OTel) concepts, including distributed tracing, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configurations.
• Deep experience with cloud observability paradigms and migrating off legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Strong knowledge of HTTP, APIs, environment-based configurations, and reading/modifying YAML/JSON manifests.
• Experience with testing, debugging logs, and validating high-cardinality telemetry data.
• Familiarity with Git, PRs, and CI/CD pipelines.

Aufgaben

• Migrate instrumentation from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configuration files, environment variables, and deployment manifests.
• Execute unit tests and validation to ensure telemetry is generated and exported.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic data with OTel outputs.
• Update dashboards and runbooks to reflect the OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection errors and collaborate with platform engineers.
• Maintain progress tracking and document migration risks.

Kenntnisse

Programming languages

OpenTelemetry

Cloud observability

APIs & configs

Telemetry testing

CI/CD workflows

Jobbeschreibung

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This remote contractor role supports global teams and demands strong telemetry expertise across tracing, metrics, and logs, plus hands-on YAML/manifest updates and testing.

You will work with modern languages and CI/CD practices to ensure uninterrupted monitoring coverage during migration. The role emphasizes instrumenting applications, validating telemetry outputs, and coordinating