Senior OpenTelemetry & Telemetry Engineer — Remote

Tata Consultancy Services Limited; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 149,026,000 - 234,184,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

USD contractor payments

100% remote

International teams

Professional development

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This remote contractor role requires coordinating with global teams and delivering instrumented software with validated telemetry across tracing, metrics, and logs.

You will update manifests, config files, and dashboards, ensuring no gaps in monitoring during the migration window. Strong language skills and cloud observability expertise are essential.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry concepts including tracing, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configurations.
• Deep experience with cloud observability and migrating off legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Strong understanding of HTTP, APIs, and reading/modifying YAML/JSON manifests.
• Strong background in software testing, debugging logs, and validating telemetry data.
• Familiarity with Git, PRs, and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configs, environment vars, and deployment manifests.
• Run unit tests and validation suites to verify telemetry output.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis against OTel outputs.
• Refresh dashboards, monitoring docs, and runbooks for the new architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection/export errors and collaborate with engineers.
• Track progress and document migration risks and edge cases.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

YAML/JSON

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Git/PRs

Tools

OTel Collector configs

HTTP/APIs

Logs/metrics/tracing

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This remote contractor role requires coordinating with global teams and delivering instrumented software with validated telemetry across tracing, metrics, and logs.

You will update manifests, config files, and dashboards, ensuring no gaps in monitoring during the migration window. Strong language skills and cloud observability expertise are essential.