Senior Observability Migration Engineer for OTel - Remote

Bluelight; Neuquén; Remote; ARS 127,737,000 - 255,474,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payment

Fully remote work

Argentine public holidays access

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to drive an observability migration from New Relic to an OpenTelemetry-based architecture. You will re-instrument applications, adjust infrastructure manifests, and validate telemetry end-to-end in a high-scale fintech context.

This contractor role is fully remote, coordinating with global teams across US/LATAM. Strong experience with OTEL, tracing, metrics, logs, and YAML/JSON manifests is essential to ensure seamless monitoring coverage during

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 concepts including tracing, metrics, logs, and Collector configurations.
• Deep experience with cloud observability paradigms and migrating off legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Solid understanding of HTTP, APIs, environment-based configurations, and YAML/JSON manifests.
• Strong background in software testing, debugging logs, and validating high-cardinality telemetry data.
• Familiarity with modern software delivery workflows (Git, PRs, CI/CD pipelines).

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configurations, environment variables, and deployment manifests.
• Run unit tests and validation suites to verify telemetry accuracy and exports.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis between New Relic data and OTel outputs.
• Update dashboards, monitoring docs, and runbooks for the new architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection/export errors and collaborate with platform engineers.
• Maintain progress tracking and risk reporting for migration.

Skills

OpenTelemetry concepts

Modern programming languages

Cloud observability

YAML/JSON manifests

Testing & debugging telemetry

Git/CI-CD workflows

Tools

OTel Collector configurations

Git

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to drive an observability migration from New Relic to an OpenTelemetry-based architecture. You will re-instrument applications, adjust infrastructure manifests, and validate telemetry end-to-end in a high-scale fintech context.

This contractor role is fully remote, coordinating with global teams across US/LATAM. Strong experience with OTEL, tracing, metrics, logs, and YAML/JSON manifests is essential to ensure seamless monitoring coverage during