Senior Software Engineer - Observability Migration (OTel)

Virtualent; Municipio de Rincón de los Sauces; Remote; ARS 149,026,000 - 276,763,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contractor payment in USD

100% remote work

Argentine holidays access

Modernizing core observability

Professional development

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to an OpenTelemetry Collector-based stack. You will instrument applications, adjust manifests, and validate telemetry end-to-end across a high-scale fintech environment.

The role emphasizes remotely coordinating with global teams, ensuring continuous monitoring coverage during migration, and contributing to infrastructure and runbooks. Strong experience with OTel and cloud observability is required.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in software engineering with proficiency in at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry (OTel) 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 instrumentation and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configurations, environment variables, and deployment manifests.
• Execute unit tests and validation suites to ensure telemetry is correctly generated and exported.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis between New Relic data and OTel outputs.
• Assist in updating dashboards, monitoring docs, and runbooks for the new architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection errors and collaborate with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Maintain progress tracking and document migration risks.

Skills

OpenTelemetry

Distributed tracing

YAML/JSON manifests

CI/CD pipelines

Git

Kubernetes

OTel Collector

Tools

OpenTelemetry Collector

Git

Kubernetes

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to an OpenTelemetry Collector-based stack. You will instrument applications, adjust manifests, and validate telemetry end-to-end across a high-scale fintech environment.

The role emphasizes remotely coordinating with global teams, ensuring continuous monitoring coverage during migration, and contributing to infrastructure and runbooks. Strong experience with OTel and cloud observability is required.