Senior Observability Engineer - Remote Infra Migration

Felix; Municipio de Rincón de los Sauces; Remote; ARS 103,480,000 - 155,220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

USD payments

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration project. You will re-instrument apps and transition telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry, coordinating across global teams.

This contractor role is fully remote with a focus on LATAM time zones and high-scale fintech infrastructure. You will update manifests, run tests, and ensure continuous monitoring visibility during migration.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in software engineering with at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on knowledge of OpenTelemetry concepts including distributed tracing, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configurations.
• Deep experience with cloud observability and migrating from legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Strong ability to read/modify complex YAML/JSON manifests and APIs.

Responsibilities

• Migrate existing instrumentation, tracing, and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configuration files, environment variables, and deployment manifests per architecture standards.
• Execute unit tests and validation suites to ensure telemetry is generated, transformed, and exported correctly.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic vs. OTel outputs to identify missing traces, metrics, logs, or attributes.
• Assist in updating dashboards, monitoring docs, and runbooks to reflect the OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection/export errors, identifying root causes and collaborating with platform engineers.
• Maintain tracking of implementation progress, edge cases, and migration risks.

Skills

OpenTelemetry

Observability

Distributed tracing

Cloud observability

Go/Java/Python/TS

YAML/JSON manifests

Git CI/CD

Tools

Kubernetes

OTel Collector

New Relic migration

YAML

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration project. You will re-instrument apps and transition telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry, coordinating across global teams.

This contractor role is fully remote with a focus on LATAM time zones and high-scale fintech infrastructure. You will update manifests, run tests, and ensure continuous monitoring visibility during migration.