Senior Observability Engineer — OTel Migration (Remote)

Félix; Tandil; Remote; ARS 185,448,000 - 247,265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% remote work

Job summary

Darwoft seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to an OpenTelemetry Collector-based architecture. You will re-instrument applications, update infrastructure manifests, validate telemetry, and ensure continuous monitoring across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

This fully remote, contractor role coordinates with US/LATAM/global teams. Strong testing, debugging, and cloud observability experience are essential for success.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts: tracing, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configurations.
• Cloud observability, migrating from legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Strong understanding of HTTP, APIs, and YAML/JSON manifests.
• Experience with software testing, debugging logs, and telemetry validation.
• Familiarity with Git and CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configurations, environment variables, and deployment manifests.
• Run unit tests and validation suites to ensure correct telemetry generation and export.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis and compare data across platforms.
• Update dashboards, documentation, and runbooks to reflect OTel architecture.
• Troubleshoot telemetry collection/export errors with platform engineers.
• Maintain progress tracking and report migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Cloud observability

YAML/JSON

Git

CI/CD

OTel Collector in Kubernetes

FinOps

Testing & debugging

Tools

OTel Collector on Kubernetes

Job description

Darwoft seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to an OpenTelemetry Collector-based architecture. You will re-instrument applications, update infrastructure manifests, validate telemetry, and ensure continuous monitoring across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

This fully remote, contractor role coordinates with US/LATAM/global teams. Strong testing, debugging, and cloud observability experience are essential for success.