Senior Observability Migration Engineer — Remote

Valatam; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 127,737,000 - 191,605,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Contractor payment in USD

100% remote work

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to guide an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across our global services. This remote contractor role focuses on building scalable telemetry pipelines while maintaining high visibility during the transition.

You will instrument applications, adjust manifests and environment configurations, and validate telemetry outputs against backends. Collaboration with platform engineers and dashboards teams will be essential to ensure zero

Qualifications

• Proven experience in software engineering with proficiency in Java, Python, Go, or TypeScript/JavaScript.
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry (OTel) experience including tracing, metrics, logs, and collectors.
• Deep experience with cloud observability and migrating off legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Strong understanding of HTTP, APIs, YAML/JSON manifests, and configuration management.
• Solid software testing, debugging logs, and telemetry data validation.
• Familiarity with Git and CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across apps.
• Update YAML configs, env vars, and deployment manifests.
• Run unit tests and validation to ensure telemetry correctness.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing data to OTEL outputs.
• Update dashboards and runbooks reflecting the new architecture.
• Investigate export errors and collaborate with platform engineers.
• Maintain progress tracking and risk reporting.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

TypeScript/JS

OpenTelemetry (OTel)

Cloud observability

YAML/JSON manifests

Testing & debugging telemetry

Git & CI/CD

Kubernetes

Tools

OTel Collector

Kubernetes

New Relic

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to guide an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across our global services. This remote contractor role focuses on building scalable telemetry pipelines while maintaining high visibility during the transition.

You will instrument applications, adjust manifests and environment configurations, and validate telemetry outputs against backends. Collaboration with platform engineers and dashboards teams will be essential to ensure zero