Senior Observability Engineer (OTel) — Remote

Bluelight; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 139,086,000 - 216,357,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payment

Remote work

Public holidays

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry Collector across our environments. This contractor role requires hands-on instrumentation, updated deployment manifests, and thorough validation to maintain monitoring coverage.

You will collaborate with US/LATAM teams, rewrite YAML/JSON configs, run tests, and document the migration with runbooks. Strong knowledge of at least one modern language and delivery workflows is essential.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience in at least one modern language.
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts including tracing, metrics, logs.
• Experience migrating from legacy platforms to OpenTelemetry.
• Strong understanding of YAML/JSON manifests and APIs.
• Familiarity with Git, PRs, and CI/CD workflows.
• Nice-to-have: experience with OpenTelemetry collectors in Kubernetes.
• Nice-to-have: FinOps or cost considerations for telemetry ingestion.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation from legacy systems to OpenTelemetry Collector.
• Update YAML configuration files, environment variables, and deployment manifests.
• Execute unit tests and validation suites for telemetry output.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis against old data to identify missing traces, metrics, logs.
• Update dashboards, monitoring documentation, and runbooks.
• Investigate telemetry collection issues with core platform engineers.
• Maintain progress tracking and risk reporting.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Cloud observability

YAML/JSON

Testing & debugging

Git & CI/CD

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry Collector across our environments. This contractor role requires hands-on instrumentation, updated deployment manifests, and thorough validation to maintain monitoring coverage.

You will collaborate with US/LATAM teams, rewrite YAML/JSON configs, run tests, and document the migration with runbooks. Strong knowledge of at least one modern language and delivery workflows is essential.