Senior Observability Migration Engineer (OTel)

Opsbrasil Serviços Cloud Ltda; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 139,086,000 - 231,811,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Payment in USD

100% remote

Argentine public holidays

Professional development

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry (OTel). This remote contractor role focuses on re-instrumenting applications, updating manifests, and validating telemetry across a high-scale fintech infrastructure.

You will collaborate with global teams, ensure uninterrupted monitoring, and contribute to documentation and runbooks. Strong OpenTelemetry experience and cloud observability are essential.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in software engineering using Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts including tracing, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configurations.
• Deep experience with cloud observability and migrating from legacy platforms.
• Strong knowledge of YAML/JSON manifests, APIs, and environment-based configurations.
• Experience with Git, PRs, and CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across applications and services.
• Update YAML configurations, environment variables, and deployment manifests.
• Run unit tests and validation suites to ensure telemetry is correctly generated and exported.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis and identify missing traces, metrics, or logs.
• Update dashboards and runbooks to reflect the new architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection issues and collaborate with platform engineers.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

Tools

OTel Collector

Kubernetes

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry (OTel). This remote contractor role focuses on re-instrumenting applications, updating manifests, and validating telemetry across a high-scale fintech infrastructure.

You will collaborate with global teams, ensure uninterrupted monitoring, and contribute to documentation and runbooks. Strong OpenTelemetry experience and cloud observability are essential.