Senior Observability Engineer: OTel Migration (Remote)

Bluelight; Tandil; Remote; ARS 255,474,000 - 383,211,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payment

100% remote work

Public holidays access

Professional development

Learning platforms

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration, re-instrumenting applications and updating manifests to move from New Relic to OpenTelemetry in a global, remote setup.

You will validate telemetry end-to-end, refine dashboards, and contribute to runbooks, while coordinating with US/LATAM teams. Advanced English required; full-time contractor engagement.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in software engineering with proficiency in at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry (OTel) concepts, including distributed tracing, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configurations.
• Deep experience with cloud observability paradigms and transitioning off legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Solid understanding of HTTP, APIs, environment-based configurations, and reading/modifying complex YAML/JSON manifests.
• Strong background in software testing, debugging log analysis, and validating high-cardinality telemetry data.
• Familiarity with modern software delivery workflows (Git, PRs, CI/CD pipelines).

Responsibilities

• Migrate existing instrumentations, tracing, and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configurations, environment variables, and deployment manifests per architecture standards.
• Execute unit tests and validation suites to ensure telemetry is accurately generated and exported.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis by comparing New Relic data against OpenTelemetry outputs.
• Help update dashboards, monitoring docs, and runbooks for the OTel setup.
• Investigate telemetry collection/export errors and collaborate with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Maintain tracking of implementation progress, edge cases, and migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Cloud observability

YAML/JSON

Testing & debugging

Git & CI/CD

Tools

OpenTelemetry Collector

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration, re-instrumenting applications and updating manifests to move from New Relic to OpenTelemetry in a global, remote setup.

You will validate telemetry end-to-end, refine dashboards, and contribute to runbooks, while coordinating with US/LATAM teams. Advanced English required; full-time contractor engagement.