Senior Observability Engineer: OTel Migration (Remote)

Fullstack; Tandil; Remote; ARS 139,086,000 - 200,903,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payment

100% remote

Argentine public holidays

Professional development

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across its global fintech platforms. You will instrument applications, update manifests, and validate end-to-end telemetry in a high-scale environment.

This contractor role is 100% remote, coordinating with US, LATAM, and international teams, and requires strong cloud observability experience with hands-on OTEL and Kubernetes exposure.

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 instrumentation, tracing, and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configuration files, environment variables, and deployment manifests according to architecture standards.
• Execute unit tests and validation suites to verify telemetry generation, transformation, and export to backends.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic data against OTel outputs to identify missing traces, metrics, logs, or resource attributes.
• Assist in updating dashboards, monitoring documentation, and troubleshooting guides to reflect the OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection and export errors, identifying root causes and collaborating with core platform engineers on edge cases.
• Maintain clear tracking and reporting of implementation progress, edge cases, and migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Tools

OpenTelemetry Collector

Kubernetes

YAML/JSON manifests

Git/CI/CD

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across its global fintech platforms. You will instrument applications, update manifests, and validate end-to-end telemetry in a high-scale environment.

This contractor role is 100% remote, coordinating with US, LATAM, and international teams, and requires strong cloud observability experience with hands-on OTEL and Kubernetes exposure.