Senior Observability Engineer - OTel Migration (Remote)

BairesDev; Neuquén; Remote; ARS 139,086,000 - 216,357,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payment

100% remote

Global team access

Public holidays in Argentina

Job summary

Darwoft seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument apps, update manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech platform while maintaining operational visibility.

This contractor role is 100% remote, coordinating with US/LATAM/global teams. Strong OpenTelemetry, tracing, and modern delivery workflow experience are required. English level: Advanced.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JS/TS).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts including distributed tracing, metrics, logs.
• Experience migrating observability from legacy platforms and reading complex manifests.
• Familiarity with Git, PRs, CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry configs from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configs, env vars, and deployment manifests per architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validate telemetry end-to-end to backends.
• Analyze telemetry gaps and coordinate with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Update dashboards and runbooks reflecting the new OTEL architecture.

Skills

Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeS

Distributed tracing

OpenTelemetry

CI/CD practices

Reading YAML/JSON

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

Job description

Darwoft seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument apps, update manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech platform while maintaining operational visibility.

This contractor role is 100% remote, coordinating with US/LATAM/global teams. Strong OpenTelemetry, tracing, and modern delivery workflow experience are required. English level: Advanced.