Senior Software Engineer, Remote Observability Migration (OTel)

BairesDev; Municipio de Rincón de los Sauces; Remote; ARS 149,026,000 - 255,474,000; Part time

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Observability Migration) to lead the transition of telemetry from New Relic to an OpenTelemetry-based architecture. This remote contractor role requires coordinating with global teams and ensuring continuous visibility during the migration.

You will re-instrument applications, refine manifests, and validate telemetry across the stack, while collaborating with engineers to resolve edge cases and maintain monitoring coverage.

Qualifications

• Experience with modern languages (Java, Python, Go, JS/TS).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts including tracing, metrics, logs.
• Strong debugging and testing skills in telemetry data.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configs, env vars, and deployment manifests.
• Run unit tests and validate telemetry outputs.
• Perform gap analysis between New Relic and OTel data.
• Update dashboards and monitoring docs.
• Investigate errors with platform engineers.
• Track progress, risks, and migration details.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Cloud observability

HTTP APIs

YAML/JSON manifests

Testing & debugging

Git & CI/CD

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry Collector

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Observability Migration) to lead the transition of telemetry from New Relic to an OpenTelemetry-based architecture. This remote contractor role requires coordinating with global teams and ensuring continuous visibility during the migration.

You will re-instrument applications, refine manifests, and validate telemetry across the stack, while collaborating with engineers to resolve edge cases and maintain monitoring coverage.