Senior Observability Engineer - OTel Migration (Remote)

Bluelight Consulting Llc; Tandil; Remote; ARS 139,086,000 - 231,811,000; Part time

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will instrument applications and update infrastructure manifests, ensuring comprehensive telemetry and monitoring coverage across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

Work is fully remote with global teams and USD contractor compensation. You will collaborate with US/LATAM teams and contribute to documentation, runbooks, and dashboards as part of a critical migration project.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with Java, Python, Go, or JS/TS.
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry experience including tracing, metrics, logs, and Collector configurations.
• Strong cloud observability experience and migration from legacy platforms.
• Solid understanding of HTTP, APIs, configurations, and reading/modifying YAML/JSON manifests.
• Experience in 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 config files, environment variables, and deployment manifests.
• Run unit tests and validation suites for telemetry outputs to backends.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic data with OTel outputs.
• Update dashboards, docs, and runbooks to reflect the OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection errors and collaborate with platform engineers.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JS/TS

OpenTelemetry

YAML/JSON

Git/CI-CD

Tracing

Tools

OpenTelemetry Collector

Kubernetes

New Relic (legacy)

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will instrument applications and update infrastructure manifests, ensuring comprehensive telemetry and monitoring coverage across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

Work is fully remote with global teams and USD contractor compensation. You will collaborate with US/LATAM teams and contribute to documentation, runbooks, and dashboards as part of a critical migration project.