Senior Software Engineer - Observability Migration (Remote)

Bluelight Consulting Llc; Neuquén; Remote; ARS 92,724,000 - 185,448,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contractor payment in USD

100% remote work

Global team coordination

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrumentize applications, adjust infrastructure manifests, and ensure end-to-end telemetry delivery across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

The role requires hands-on expertise with OTEL concepts, distributed tracing, and metrics, plus strong collaboration with global teams. This is a 100% remote contractor position with international coordination and USD payments.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in software engineering with proficiency in Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry concepts and Collector configurations.
• Familiarity with cloud observability and migrating from legacy telemetry platforms.
• Nice-to-have experience operating OTel Collectors in Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation, tracing, and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML config files, environment variables, and deployment manifests per architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validation suites to ensure telemetry is generated, transformed, and exported correctly.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic data to OTel outputs to find missing traces, metrics, logs, or attributes.
• Assist in updating dashboards, monitoring docs, and runbooks to reflect the OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection/export errors and collaborate with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Maintain tracking and reporting of progress, edge cases, and migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

OTel Collector

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD

Tools

Git

Docker

YAML

JSON

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrumentize applications, adjust infrastructure manifests, and ensure end-to-end telemetry delivery across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

The role requires hands-on expertise with OTEL concepts, distributed tracing, and metrics, plus strong collaboration with global teams. This is a 100% remote contractor position with international coordination and USD payments.