Senior Observability Migration Engineer (OTel) – Remote

Ubq; Tandil; Remote; ARS 185,448,000 - 247,265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payment

100% remote work

International setting

Argentine public holidays

Professional development

Referral programs

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, update manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

The role requires deep OpenTelemetry experience, strong testing skills, and collaboration with global teams. This is a 100% remote, contractor position paid in USD, with international exposure.

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

Responsibilities

• Migrate existing instrumentation and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configuration files, environment variables, and deployment manifests.
• Run unit tests and validation suites to verify telemetry generation and export to backends.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis by comparing New Relic data to OTel outputs.
• Assist in updating dashboards, monitoring docs, and runbooks reflecting the OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection/export errors and coordinate with platform engineers.
• Maintain tracking of progress, edge cases, and migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Git

CI/CD

APIs

Tools

YAML/JSON manifests

OTel Collector configurations

Kubernetes

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, update manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

The role requires deep OpenTelemetry experience, strong testing skills, and collaboration with global teams. This is a 100% remote, contractor position paid in USD, with international exposure.