Senior OpenTelemetry Migration Engineer (Remote)

Atomic Hr; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 185,448,000 - 278,173,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Payment in USD

100% remote work

Argentine public holidays

Direct involvement in modernization

Professional development and learning

Job summary

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

The role requires hands-on OpenTelemetry experience, cloud observability knowledge, and strong problem-solving skills. This is a 100% remote contractor position coordinating with US, LATAM, and global teams.

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 concepts, including distributed tracing, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configurations.
• Deep experience with cloud observability and migrating from legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Strong ability to read/modify complex YAML/JSON manifests and understand APIs and environment-based configurations.
• Experience with software testing, debugging logs, and validating telemetry data.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configs, env vars, and deployment manifests.
• Run unit tests and validation to ensure telemetry is correctly generated and exported.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis to compare New Relic data with OTel outputs.
• Update dashboards and runbooks to reflect the OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection/export issues and collaborate with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Track progress and communicate migration risks clearly.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Cloud observability

YAML/JSON manifests

Git/CI/CD

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

Job description

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

The role requires hands-on OpenTelemetry experience, cloud observability knowledge, and strong problem-solving skills. This is a 100% remote contractor position coordinating with US, LATAM, and global teams.