Senior Observability Engineer - OTel Migration Remote

Bluelight Consulting Llc; Rosario; Remote; ARS 149,026,000 - 255,474,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payment

100% remote work

Public holidays in Argentina

Professional development

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to drive a critical observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, update infrastructure manifests, and validate telemetry outputs across a high-scale fintech ecosystem while collaborating with global teams.

The role requires strong Go/Java/Python/JavaScript skills, hands-on OTEL experience, and deep cloud observability know-how. This is a fully remote, contractor position with USD payments.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts: tracing, metrics, logs, and OTEL collector configurations.
• Deep experience with cloud observability and migrating from legacy platforms.
• Strong reading/modifying of YAML/JSON manifests and APIs.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML files, env vars, and deployment manifests.
• Run unit tests and validation to ensure telemetry is correctly generated and exported.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic data with OTEL outputs.
• Assist in updating dashboards and runbooks reflecting the OTEL architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection errors and collaborate on edge cases with platform engineers.
• Maintain progress tracking, edge cases, and migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Cloud observability

YAML/JSON

Software testing

Git & CI/CD

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to drive a critical observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, update infrastructure manifests, and validate telemetry outputs across a high-scale fintech ecosystem while collaborating with global teams.

The role requires strong Go/Java/Python/JavaScript skills, hands-on OTEL experience, and deep cloud observability know-how. This is a fully remote, contractor position with USD payments.