Senior Observability Migration Engineer - Remote (OTel)

Outlier; Salta; Remote; ARS 127,737,000 - 255,474,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Payment in USD

100% remote

Argentine public holidays perks

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, adjust infrastructure manifests, and validate telemetry outputs across a scalable fintech platform.

Remote, contractor position with coordination across US/LATAM/Global teams. Strong emphasis on tests, documentation, and reliable monitoring during the migration window.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JS/TS).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts including tracing, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configurations.
• Deep experience with cloud observability and migrating off legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Strong understanding of YAML/JSON manifests and environment-based configurations.
• Experience in software testing, debugging logs, and validating telemetry data.
• Familiarity with Git and CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across applications.
• Update YAML configs, env vars, and deployment manifests per architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validation to ensure telemetry is produced and exported to backends.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis against OTEL outputs to identify missing traces, metrics, logs.
• Update dashboards and runbooks to reflect the OTEL architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection/export errors and work with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Maintain progress tracking and report migration risks.

Skills

OpenTelemetry

Distributed tracing

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

YAML/JSON manifests

Cloud observability

Git / CI/CD

OTel Collector

Tools

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, adjust infrastructure manifests, and validate telemetry outputs across a scalable fintech platform.

Remote, contractor position with coordination across US/LATAM/Global teams. Strong emphasis on tests, documentation, and reliable monitoring during the migration window.