Senior OpenTelemetry Engineer - Observability Migration

JP Morgan Chase; Municipio de Rincón de los Sauces; Remote; ARS 139,086,000 - 200,903,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Payment in USD

100% remote

Argentine holidays

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This remote, contractor role supports global teams across LATAM and the US, coordinating with backend engineers and SREs to ensure continuous visibility during migration.

You will re-instrument applications, adjust manifests, validate telemetry outputs, and update dashboards and runbooks. Strong OSS telemetry experience and cloud observability fundamentals are required.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with modern languages (Java, Python, Go, or JS/TS).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts and Collector configurations.
• Experience migrating telemetry from legacy platforms to OTel.
• Strong YAML/JSON manifest editing and environment configurations.
• Testing, debugging logs, and telemetry validation expertise.
• Familiarity with Git-based delivery workflows (PRs, CI/CD).

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update deployment manifests and environment variables to match architecture.
• Run unit tests and validation to ensure correct telemetry output.
• Analyze telemetry gaps and compare data across backends.
• Update dashboards and runbooks to reflect OTel architecture.
• Troubleshoot telemetry collection and export issues with platform engineers.
• Track progress and risks throughout migration.

Skills

OpenTelemetry

Distributed tracing

Java

Python

TypeScript

CI/CD pipelines

Tools

OpenTelemetry Collector

Kubernetes

Git

YAML/JSON manifests

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This remote, contractor role supports global teams across LATAM and the US, coordinating with backend engineers and SREs to ensure continuous visibility during migration.

You will re-instrument applications, adjust manifests, validate telemetry outputs, and update dashboards and runbooks. Strong OSS telemetry experience and cloud observability fundamentals are required.