Senior OpenTelemetry Engineer - Observability (Remote)

Bridgenext; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 139,086,000 - 200,903,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% remote work

International team collaboration

Argentine public holidays

Professional development

Job summary

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

Strong expertise in OTEL, tracing, metrics, and logs is required, with cloud observability experience and a focus on reliability. You will work remotely with global teams, coordinating across US, LATAM, and international stakeholders, ensuring zero loss of monitoring

Qualifications

• Proven experience in software engineering with proficiency in at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry (OTel) concepts, including distributed tracing, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configurations.
• Deep experience with cloud observability paradigms and transitioning off legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Solid understanding of HTTP, APIs, environment-based configurations, and reading/modifying complex YAML/JSON manifests.
• Strong background in software testing, debugging log analysis, and validating high-cardinality telemetry data.
• Familiarity with modern software delivery workflows (Git, PRs, CI/CD pipelines).
• Nice-to-Have: Experience operating or configuring OTel Collectors in Kubernetes or containerized environments.

Responsibilities

• Migrate existing instrumentation and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configuration files, environment variables, and deployment manifests per architecture standards.
• Execute unit tests and validation suites to verify telemetry generation, transformation, and export to backends.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic data against OTel outputs.
• Update dashboards, monitoring docs, and runbooks to reflect the OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection/export errors and collaborate with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Maintain tracking of implementation progress, edge cases, and migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Telemetry/Observability

Git

CI/CD

Tools

OpenTelemetry (OTel)

Kubernetes

YAML

JSON

New Relic

Job description

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

Strong expertise in OTEL, tracing, metrics, and logs is required, with cloud observability experience and a focus on reliability. You will work remotely with global teams, coordinating across US, LATAM, and international stakeholders, ensuring zero loss of monitoring