Senior Observability Migration Engineer (Remote)

Bluelight; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 139,086,000 - 200,903,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid in USD

Remote work, international

Argentine public holidays

Modernizing core observability

Professional development & referrals

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 end-to-end in a distributed, global team.

The role requires strong experience with OpenTelemetry, cloud observability, and containerized deployments. It is a contractor position with fully remote collaboration across LATAM and US teams.

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.
• Strong cloud observability background and migration from legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Solid understanding of HTTP, APIs, environment-based configurations, and YAML/JSON manifests.
• Familiarity with modern software delivery workflows (Git, PRs, CI/CD).

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update configuration files, env vars, and deployment manifests.
• Run unit tests and validation to ensure correct telemetry delivery.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis and identify missing traces, metrics, logs, or attributes.
• Update dashboards, docs, and runbooks for the OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection issues and collaborate on edge cases.
• Track progress and migration risks transparently.

Skills

Languages: Java/Python/Go/JS

OpenTelemetry

Cloud observability

YAML/JSON manifests

Telemetry testing

Git/CI/CD

Tools

OTel Collector

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 end-to-end in a distributed, global team.

The role requires strong experience with OpenTelemetry, cloud observability, and containerized deployments. It is a contractor position with fully remote collaboration across LATAM and US teams.