Senior Observability Migration Engineer (OTel) — Remote

Darwoft; Tandil; Remote; ARS 149,026,000 - 255,474,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Contractor payments in USD

100% remote work

Global collaboration

Professional development

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry, re-instrumenting applications and updating deployment manifests.

You will validate telemetry outputs, execute tests, and ensure seamless monitoring across a high‑scale fintech ecosystem while collaborating with global teams in LATAM, US, and beyond. This is a remote contractor role paid in USD, with opportunities for professional growth.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with modern languages.
• Hands-on with OpenTelemetry concepts (distributed tracing, metrics, logs).
• Deep experience with cloud observability and migrating off legacy platforms.
• Strong YAML/JSON manifest skills and API understanding.
• Familiarity with Git, PRs, and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configs, env vars, and deployment manifests.
• Run tests to verify telemetry generation and export.
• Perform telemetry gap analyses and validation.
• Update dashboards and runbooks with the new architecture.
• Troubleshoot telemetry collection issues with platform teams.
• Track progress and document migration risks.

Skills

OpenTelemetry

Telemetry instrumentation

Cloud observability

Java/Python/Go/JS

YAML/JSON

Git & CI/CD

Tools

Kubernetes

OTel Collector

Terraform

New Relic

Docker

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry, re-instrumenting applications and updating deployment manifests.

You will validate telemetry outputs, execute tests, and ensure seamless monitoring across a high‑scale fintech ecosystem while collaborating with global teams in LATAM, US, and beyond. This is a remote contractor role paid in USD, with opportunities for professional growth.