Senior Observability Migration Engineer - OpenTelemetry (Remote)

Darwoft; Santa Fe Capital; Remote; ARS 148,250,000 - 254,142,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contractor agreement with payment in "

100% remote work in an international

Access to Argentine public holidays

Direct involvement in modernizing core

Professional development, learning

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, adjust manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech environment while remaining aligned with global teams.

This remote role offers USD payment and contractor terms, with a focus on modern telemetry pipelines, Kubernetes exposure, and strong testing, debugging, and documentation practices within an international, US/LATAM context.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in software engineering with Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts including traces, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configs.
• Deep experience with cloud observability and migrating off legacy platforms.
• Strong understanding of HTTP APIs, environment configurations, and YAML/JSON manifests.
• Background in testing, debugging, log analysis, and validating telemetry data.
• Familiarity with Git and CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML config files, environment vars, and deployment manifests.
• Run unit tests and validation suites for telemetry accuracy and export targets.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis between New Relic and OTel outputs.
• Update dashboards, docs, and runbooks for the new observability architecture.
• Investigate errors and work with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Track progress, risks, and edge cases throughout the migration.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Distributed tracing

CI/CD

Tools

Git

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry Collector

YAML/JSON manifests

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, adjust manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech environment while remaining aligned with global teams.

This remote role offers USD payment and contractor terms, with a focus on modern telemetry pipelines, Kubernetes exposure, and strong testing, debugging, and documentation practices within an international, US/LATAM context.