Senior Observability Engineer — OTel Migration (Remote)

Techunting; Rosario; Remote; ARS 103,480,000 - 172,467,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payment

Remote work

Argentine holidays

Job summary

Darwoft seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead the Observability Migration, transitioning telemetry from New Relic to an OpenTelemetry Collector-based setup. You will re-instrument applications, adjust deployment manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech environment.

The role is a full-time contractor engagement, 100% remote, with USD payments and collaboration across US, LATAM, and global teams. Advanced English required.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry concepts (tracing, metrics, logs).
• Deep experience with cloud observability and migrating off legacy platforms.
• Strong knowledge of HTTP, APIs, and reading/modifying YAML/JSON manifests.
• Experience with software testing, debugging logs, and validating telemetry data.
• Familiarity with Git and CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across applications and infra.
• Update YAML files, environment variables, and deployment manifests.
• Run unit tests and validation suites for telemetry output to backends.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic data with OTEL outputs.
• Update dashboards and runbooks to reflect the OTEL architecture.
• Investigate and resolve telemetry collection/export errors with platform engineers.
• Track progress, edge cases, and migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

OTel Collector

Git

CI/CD

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

YAML/JSON manifests

Job description

Darwoft seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead the Observability Migration, transitioning telemetry from New Relic to an OpenTelemetry Collector-based setup. You will re-instrument applications, adjust deployment manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech environment.

The role is a full-time contractor engagement, 100% remote, with USD payments and collaboration across US, LATAM, and global teams. Advanced English required.