Senior Observability Engineer - OTel Migration (Remote)

BairesDev; Municipio de Rincón de los Sauces; Remote; ARS 127,737,000 - 255,474,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payments

100% remote

Argentine public holidays

Fintech observability modernization

Professional development

Job summary

Darwoft seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, adjust manifests, and ensure telemetry coverage across a high-scale fintech stack while coordinating with global teams.

You should have strong experience in Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript, hands-on OpenTelemetry, and modern DevOps workflows. This is a contractor role with USD payments and 100% remote work. English level: Advanced (C1).

Qualifications

• Proven experience with OpenTelemetry concepts (tracing, metrics, logs).
• Strong YAML/JSON manifest skills and environment configs.
• Hands-on with modern language stacks (Java, Python, Go, JS/TS).
• Familiarity with Git, CI/CD workflows, and code reviews.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update deployment manifests and environment configurations.
• Run unit tests and validation suites for telemetry outputs.
• Compare Telemetry data between old and new systems to identify gaps.
• Assist in updating dashboards and runbooks for the OTEL architecture.
• Troubleshoot telemetry collection/export errors with platform engineers.
• Maintain progress tracking and risk assessment for migration.

Skills

OpenTelemetry

Distributed tracing

Java/Python/Go/JS/TS

YAML/JSON manifests

CI/CD & Git

Telemetry debugging

Tools

OpenTelemetry Collector

Kubernetes

Git

Monitoring dashboards

Job description

Darwoft seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, adjust manifests, and ensure telemetry coverage across a high-scale fintech stack while coordinating with global teams.

You should have strong experience in Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript, hands-on OpenTelemetry, and modern DevOps workflows. This is a contractor role with USD payments and 100% remote work. English level: Advanced (C1).