Senior Observability Engineer: OTEL Migration (Remote)

Devconnectplatform; Santa Fe Capital; Remote; ARS 127,737,000 - 234,184,000; Part time

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will instrument applications, update manifests, and verify telemetry coverage across a high-scale environment.

This remote role supports global teams and requires strong expertise in OTel concepts and modern delivery workflows. You will collaborate with platform engineers to resolve edge cases, maintain migration progress, and contribute to dashboards and troubleshooting guides

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry concepts including tracing, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configurations.
• Deep experience with cloud observability and migrating from legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Strong understanding of HTTP, APIs, and reading/modifying YAML/JSON manifests.
• Solid testing, debugging and telemetry data validation skills.
• Familiarity with modern delivery workflows (Git, PRs, CI).

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update environment variables and deployment manifests to align with OTel architecture.
• Run unit tests and validation to ensure telemetry is correctly generated and exported.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic data with OTel outputs.
• Update dashboards and documentation to reflect the OTel migration.
• Investigate telemetry issues and collaborate with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Track progress, risks, and milestones during the migration.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

OTel Collector

Distributed tracing

Cloud observability

Git & CI

Tools

OpenTelemetry Collector

New Relic

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will instrument applications, update manifests, and verify telemetry coverage across a high-scale environment.

This remote role supports global teams and requires strong expertise in OTel concepts and modern delivery workflows. You will collaborate with platform engineers to resolve edge cases, maintain migration progress, and contribute to dashboards and troubleshooting guides