Senior Observability Engineer - Remote OpenTelemetry Migration

Bluelightconsulting; Tandil; Remote; ARS 92,724,000 - 169,994,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Payment in USD

100% remote work

Access to Argentine public holidays

Modernizing core observability

Professional development

Job summary

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

This remote, contractor role coordinates with US/LATAM/global teams and emphasizes strong testing, documentation, and troubleshooting. You will work with modern languages (Java, Python, Go, JS/TS) and OTel concepts, focusing on reliable telemetry delivery

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with proficiency in at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry concepts including tracing, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configurations.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation, tracing, and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configs, env vars, and deployment manifests to match architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validation to ensure telemetry is correctly generated and exported.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Git

CI/CD

Tools

OTel Collector

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD tooling

Job description

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

This remote, contractor role coordinates with US/LATAM/global teams and emphasizes strong testing, documentation, and troubleshooting. You will work with modern languages (Java, Python, Go, JS/TS) and OTel concepts, focusing on reliable telemetry delivery