Senior Observability Migration Engineer (Remote, Contractor)

Dev PRO; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 127,737,000 - 191,605,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

USD payments

Argentine holidays access

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, update deployment manifests, and ensure end-to-end telemetry coverage in a high-scale fintech environment. The role is remote, contractor-based, with coordination across US, LATAM, and global teams.

Strong OpenTelemetry and Kubernetes experience is required. You will collaborate with platform engineers, validate telemetry outputs, write tests, and

Qualifications

• Proven software engineer with at least one modern language
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts: traces, metrics, logs and OTel Collector configurations
• Experience migrating observability from legacy platforms to OTel
• Strong ability to read/modify YAML/JSON manifests
• Testing and debugging telemetry data with automated checks
• Familiarity with Git and CI/CD workflows

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation from New Relic to OpenTelemetry
• Update manifests and environment configurations
• Run unit tests and validation for telemetry outputs
• Analyze telemetry gaps vs OTEL outputs
• Update dashboards and runbooks reflecting OTEL architecture
• Investigate telemetry collection errors with platform engineers
• Track progress and document migration risks

Skills

OpenTelemetry

Distributed tracing

Cloud observability

YAML/JSON manifests

Java, Python, Go, or TypeScript

Git, CI/CD

Kubernetes

Telemetry validation

Tools

OTel Collector

YAML/JSON

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, update deployment manifests, and ensure end-to-end telemetry coverage in a high-scale fintech environment. The role is remote, contractor-based, with coordination across US, LATAM, and global teams.

Strong OpenTelemetry and Kubernetes experience is required. You will collaborate with platform engineers, validate telemetry outputs, write tests, and