Senior OpenTelemetry Observability Engineer (Remote)

Fullstack; Municipio de Rincón de los Sauces; Remote; ARS 139,086,000 - 231,811,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payment

Remote work (international)

Argentine holidays

Professional development

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. The role is remote on a global scale, coordinating with US, LATAM, and international teams.

You will instrument applications, adjust manifests, validate telemetry, and ensure continuous monitoring coverage during the migration. Key challenges include re-instrumentation, updating dashboards, and solving complex edge cases.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts including tracing, metrics and logs.
• Experience migrating from legacy platforms to modern observability stacks.
• Strong understanding of HTTP APIs and YAML/JSON manifests.
• Familiarity with Git and CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configs, env vars, and deployment manifests to the architecture.
• Run unit tests and validation to ensure telemetry is correctly emitted.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic data to OTEL outputs.
• Update dashboards, docs, and runbooks for the new architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection/export errors and troubleshoot with platform engineers.
• Track progress, edge cases, and migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

YAML/JSON

Git/CI-CD

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. The role is remote on a global scale, coordinating with US, LATAM, and international teams.

You will instrument applications, adjust manifests, validate telemetry, and ensure continuous monitoring coverage during the migration. Key challenges include re-instrumentation, updating dashboards, and solving complex edge cases.