Senior SRE & Observability Engineer — OpenTelemetry Migration (Remote)

Bluelightconsulting; Rosario; Remote; ARS 127,992,000 - 213,320,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payments

100% remote

Argentine public holidays

Job summary

Darwoft is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to lead a critical observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This remote, contractor role supports our global fintech projects and coordinates with US/LATAM teams.

You will instrument applications, adjust manifests, and validate telemetry across high-scale systems. You should be proficient in Java or Python or Go, with OpenTelemetry knowledge, Kubernetes, and modern delivery workflows.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry concepts, including distributed tracing, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configurations.
• Deep experience with cloud observability and migrating off legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Strong ability to read/modify complex YAML/JSON manifests and understand APIs.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configurations, environment variables, and deployment manifests.
• Run unit tests and validation to ensure telemetry is correctly generated and exported.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry (OTel)

Tools

OpenTelemetry Collector

Kubernetes

YAML/JSON manifests

New Relic

Git / CI/CD

Job description

Darwoft is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to lead a critical observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This remote, contractor role supports our global fintech projects and coordinates with US/LATAM teams.

You will instrument applications, adjust manifests, and validate telemetry across high-scale systems. You should be proficient in Java or Python or Go, with OpenTelemetry knowledge, Kubernetes, and modern delivery workflows.