Senior Observability Migration Engineer — OpenTelemetry

Darwoft; Tandil; Remote; ARS 120,727,000 - 206,960,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contractor in USD

100% remote work

Argentine public holidays

Professional development & referral

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This remote contractor role coordinates with US, LATAM, and global teams, ensuring telemetry coverage remains intact during the transition.

You will re-instrument applications, adjust deployment manifests, and validate telemetry across traces, metrics, and logs while collaborating with analytics and platform engineers in a fintech context.

Qualifications

• Experienced software engineer with proficiency in at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts including tracing, metrics, logs, and Collector configurations.
• Deep experience with cloud observability and migrating from legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Strong ability to read/modify YAML/JSON manifests and understand HTTP APIs.
• Background in software testing, debugging logs, and validating telemetry data.
• Familiar with Git workflows, PRs, and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configuration files, environment variables, and deployment manifests.
• Run unit tests and validation suites to verify telemetry outputs.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis across data sources and backends.
• Help update dashboards, docs, and runbooks for the new telemetry stack.
• Investigate export errors and collaborate with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Track progress, edge cases, and migration risks.

Skills

Modern programming languages

OpenTelemetry (OTel) concepts

Cloud observability

HTTP APIs

Testing & debugging

Git & CI/CD

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Kubernetes

YAML/JSON manifests

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This remote contractor role coordinates with US, LATAM, and global teams, ensuring telemetry coverage remains intact during the transition.

You will re-instrument applications, adjust deployment manifests, and validate telemetry across traces, metrics, and logs while collaborating with analytics and platform engineers in a fintech context.