Senior Observability Engineer: OTel Migration (Remote)

Techunting; Tandil; Remote; ARS 139,086,000 - 231,811,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

USD contractor pay

Public holidays (Argentina)

Professional development

Referral programs

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration, moving telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem. You will re-instrument applications, adjust manifests, and verify telemetry end-to-end in a fully remote, contractor role.

Responsibilities include updating dashboards, running validation suites, and collaborating with core platform engineers on complex edge cases while ensuring continuous monitoring coverage during the

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience in at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JS/TS).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts, including traces, metrics, logs and Collector configurations.
• Cloud observability experience and migrating from legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Strong YAML/JSON manifest editing and environment-based configurations.
• Familiar with Git, PRs and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation from New Relic to OpenTelemetry in apps.
• Update YAML configs, env vars, and deployment manifests.
• Run unit tests and validation to ensure telemetry delivery.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic data to OTEL outputs.
• Assist in updating dashboards and documentation for the OTEL architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection/export issues with platform engineers.
• Track implementation progress, edge cases, and migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD

YAML/JSON manifests

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration, moving telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem. You will re-instrument applications, adjust manifests, and verify telemetry end-to-end in a fully remote, contractor role.

Responsibilities include updating dashboards, running validation suites, and collaborating with core platform engineers on complex edge cases while ensuring continuous monitoring coverage during the