Senior Observability Engineer - OTel Migration (Remote)

Techunting; Neuquén; Remote; ARS 159,671,000 - 319,342,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% remote

USD payments

Global team

Professional development

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry for a high-scale fintech platform. This role is fully remote and contractor-based with global coordination.

You will instrument applications, update configurations, and validate telemetry end-to-end while preserving monitoring coverage. English proficiency required; coordination with US/LATAM/global teams.

Qualifications

• Must have hands-on software engineering experience with at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Deep knowledge of OpenTelemetry concepts including tracing, metrics, logs and collectors.
• Experience migrating observability from legacy systems to modern OpenTelemetry.
• Strong YAML/JSON manifest editing and infrastructure as code skills.

Responsibilities

• Migrate existing instrumentation, tracing, and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configuration files, environment variables, and deployment manifests according to established architecture standards.
• Execute unit tests and validation suites to verify telemetry is generated, transformed, and exported to backends.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis, comparing New Relic data against OpenTelemetry outputs to identify missing traces, metrics, logs, or resource attributes.
• Assist in updating dashboards, monitoring documentation, and troubleshooting guides to reflect the OpenTelemetry architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection and export errors, identifying root causes and collaborating with core platform engineers on edge cases.
• Maintain clear tracking and reporting of implementation progress, edge cases, and migration risks.

Skills

Modern language: Java/Python/Go/JS

OpenTelemetry (OTel)

Cloud observability

YAML/JSON manifests

Software testing & debugging

Git & CI/CD

OTel in Kubernetes

Tools

OpenTelemetry Collector

Kubernetes

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry for a high-scale fintech platform. This role is fully remote and contractor-based with global coordination.

You will instrument applications, update configurations, and validate telemetry end-to-end while preserving monitoring coverage. English proficiency required; coordination with US/LATAM/global teams.