Senior OpenTelemetry Migration Engineer - Remote

Devconnectplatform; Rosario; Remote; ARS 127,737,000 - 255,474,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payment, contractor

100% remote work

Public holidays in Argentina

Professional development

Direct involvement in modernization of

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications and update infrastructure manifests while ensuring monitoring coverage across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

Work is fully remote with flexible coordination across US, LATAM, and global teams. You will collaborate with platform engineers, validate telemetry outputs, and contribute to dashboards, runbooks and best practices during the migration.

Qualifications

• 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 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).

Responsibilities

• Migrate existing application instrumentation, tracing, and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configuration files, environment variables, and deployment manifests according to established architecture standards.
• Execute unit tests and validation suites to verify telemetry generation and export to backends.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis, comparing data from New Relic to OTel outputs to identify missing traces, metrics, logs, or attributes.
• Assist in updating dashboards, monitoring documentation, and runbooks to reflect the OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection and export errors, identifying root causes and collaborating with core platform engineers on edge cases.
• Maintain clear tracking and reporting of implementation progress, edge cases, and migration risks.

Skills

OpenTelemetry

Software engineering

Distributed tracing

YAML/JSON manifests

Cloud observability

Git & CI/CD

Tools

OTel Collector

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 and update infrastructure manifests while ensuring monitoring coverage across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

Work is fully remote with flexible coordination across US, LATAM, and global teams. You will collaborate with platform engineers, validate telemetry outputs, and contribute to dashboards, runbooks and best practices during the migration.