Senior Software Engineer — Observability Migration (Remote)

Outlier; Santa Fe Capital; Remote; ARS 139,364,000 - 185,819,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payment for contractor

100% remote work in international team

Access to Argentine public holidays

Professional development programs

Referral programs

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry Collector. This contractor role is fully remote and spans global teams across LATAM and the US.

You will re-instrument applications, update manifests, and validate telemetry coverage without compromising observability during the migration. Ideal candidates have hands-on OpenTelemetry, cloud observability experience, and strong testing/debugging skills, plus Git/CI/CD familiarity.

Qualifications

• Must have hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry and telemetry concepts.
• Strong background in cloud observability and migrating from legacy platforms.
• Proficiency with YAML/JSON manifests and environment configurations.
• Experience in software testing, debugging, and validating telemetry data.
• Familiarity with Git, PRs, and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update deployment manifests and environment variables per architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validation suites for end-to-end telemetry delivery.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis and identify missing traces, metrics, or logs.
• Update dashboards, docs, and runbooks to reflect OTel architecture.
• Investigate collection/export errors and work with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Track progress, edge cases, and migration risks clearly.

Skills

OpenTelemetry (OTel)

Cloud observability

YAML/JSON manifests

Software testing

Git & CI/CD

Telemetry validation

Tools

Kubernetes

New Relic

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry Collector. This contractor role is fully remote and spans global teams across LATAM and the US.

You will re-instrument applications, update manifests, and validate telemetry coverage without compromising observability during the migration. Ideal candidates have hands-on OpenTelemetry, cloud observability experience, and strong testing/debugging skills, plus Git/CI/CD familiarity.