Senior Software Engineer: OTel Observability (Remote)

Mercado Libre; Municipio de Rincón de los Sauces; Remote; ARS 127,737,000 - 191,605,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Contractor in USD

100% remote

Global teams coordination

Job summary

Darwoft seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, update manifests, and validate telemetry end-to-end while maintaining monitoring coverage in a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

This remote contractor role requires strong software engineering skills in Java/Python/Go/TypeScript, hands-on OTel experience, and proficiency with YAML/JSON manifests.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience in at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry concepts including tracing, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configurations.
• Cloud observability experience and migration from legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Strong YAML/JSON manifest reading and editing skills.
• Experience with testing, debugging logs, and validating telemetry data.
• Familiarity with Git, PRs, and CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across applications and infrastructure.
• Update YAML configurations, environment variables, and deployment manifests.
• Run unit tests and validation to ensure telemetry is correctly generated and exported to backends.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis against the new OTel outputs.
• Update dashboards, monitoring docs, and runbooks to reflect the OTel architecture.
• Investigate export errors and collaborate with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Track progress, edge cases, and migration risks transparently.

Skills

Software engineering

OpenTelemetry

CI/CD pipelines

Testing & debugging telemetry

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Git & CI/CD

Kubernetes (nice-to-have)

Job description

Darwoft seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, update manifests, and validate telemetry end-to-end while maintaining monitoring coverage in a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

This remote contractor role requires strong software engineering skills in Java/Python/Go/TypeScript, hands-on OTel experience, and proficiency with YAML/JSON manifests.