Senior Remote Observability & OpenTelemetry Engineer

Ubq; Tandil; Remote; ARS 155,220,000 - 258,701,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% remote work

USD payment

Professional development

Job summary

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

The role requires deep OTel experience, strong software engineering skills in one of Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript, and coordination with US/LATAM teams. This is a contractor position with 100% remote work.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry concepts, including traces, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configurations.
• Solid understanding of HTTP, APIs, environment-based configurations, and reading/modifying complex YAML/JSON manifests.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configuration files, environment variables, and deployment manifests per architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validation suites to verify telemetry output and backends.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic data against OTel outputs.
• Assist in updating dashboards, monitoring docs, and runbooks for the new architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection/export errors and collaborate with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Track implementation progress, edge cases, and migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Tools

OpenTelemetry Collector

Kubernetes

Git

Job description

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

The role requires deep OTel experience, strong software engineering skills in one of Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript, and coordination with US/LATAM teams. This is a contractor position with 100% remote work.