Senior OTel Observability Migration Engineer (Remote)

Werben HR LLC; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 127,737,000 - 255,474,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payments for contractor

100% remote work

Argentine public holidays

Job summary

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

This is a fully remote, contractor role with coordination across US, LATAM, and global teams. You will work with Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript, focusing on distributed tracing, metrics and logs, and OTel Collector configurations.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience in at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry (OTel) with distributed tracing, metrics, logs, and Collector configurations.
• Cloud observability experience; migrating from legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Strong understanding of HTTP, APIs, and working with YAML/JSON manifests.
• Experience with software testing, debug logs, and validating telemetry data.
• Familiarity with Git, PRs, and CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update deployment manifests, env vars, and YAML configurations.
• Run unit tests and validation to ensure telemetry is correctly generated and exported.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing Old vs New outputs.
• Update dashboards and runbooks to reflect the OTel architecture.
• Investigate export errors and coordinate with platform engineers.
• Track progress, edge cases, and migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry (OTel) concepts

Observability

Distributed tracing

Git & CI/CD

Tools

OpenTelemetry Collector

Kubernetes

YAML/JSON manifests

Job description

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

This is a fully remote, contractor role with coordination across US, LATAM, and global teams. You will work with Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript, focusing on distributed tracing, metrics and logs, and OTel Collector configurations.