Senior Observability & OTel Migration Engineer (Remote)

Bluelightconsulting; Buenos Aires; Remote; ARS 184,482,000 - 276,723,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contractor paid in USD

100% remote work

Global collaboration with LATAM/US

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

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

Role is remote (global) with English at an advanced level. You will collaborate with US/LATAM teams, ensure coverage, and contribute to dashboards and runbooks during the migration.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a software engineer with proficiency in modern languages.
• Hands-on with OpenTelemetry concepts including tracing, metrics, logs.
• Experience migrating from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Strong ability to read/modify YAML/JSON manifests and environment configurations.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML files, environment variables, and deployment manifests.
• Run unit tests and validation for end-to-end telemetry delivery.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis against OTel outputs to identify missing traces/metrics/logs.
• Update dashboards, monitoring docs, and runbooks for the OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection issues and collaborate with platform engineers.
• Track implementation progress and flag migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

Distributed tracing

Tools

OpenTelemetry (OTel)

YAML/JSON manifests

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

New Relic

Job description

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

Role is remote (global) with English at an advanced level. You will collaborate with US/LATAM teams, ensure coverage, and contribute to dashboards and runbooks during the migration.