Senior Observability Engineer: OTel Migration | Remote

Bluelight Consulting, Llc; Tandil; Remote; ARS 155,220,000 - 206,960,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contractor agreement in USD

100% remote in international setting

Public holidays in Argentina

Career development opportunities

Access to learning platforms

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This remote, contractor role collaborates with US, LATAM, and global teams to ensure seamless telemetry coverage across a high-scale fintech environment.

You will re-instrument applications, adjust manifests, and validate telemetry outputs while coordinating with platform engineers to avoid downtime and ensure high-quality monitoring.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry experience including traces, metrics and logs.
• Deep experience with cloud observability and migrating off legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Solid understanding of YAML/JSON manifests, APIs, and environment configs.
• Strong testing, debugging logs, and validating telemetry data.
• Familiarity with Git, PRs, and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configs, environment vars, and deployment manifests to match architecture.
• Run unit tests and validation to ensure telemetry is correctly produced and exported.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic vs OTel outputs.
• Help update dashboards and runbooks to reflect OTel architecture.
• Investigate and resolve telemetry collection/export issues with platform engineers.
• Track progress, edge cases, and migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

New Relic

Kubernetes

Tools

OpenTelemetry

New Relic

Kubernetes

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This remote, contractor role collaborates with US, LATAM, and global teams to ensure seamless telemetry coverage across a high-scale fintech environment.

You will re-instrument applications, adjust manifests, and validate telemetry outputs while coordinating with platform engineers to avoid downtime and ensure high-quality monitoring.