Senior SRE & Observability Engineer: OTel Migration

Bluelightconsulting; Ciudad de Mendoza; Remote; ARS 149,324,000 - 277,316,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payment

Remote work

Public holidays

Modern observability project

Professional development

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, update infrastructure manifests, and validate telemetry across our high-scale ecosystem while preserving visibility.

Work is remote with coordination across US, LATAM, and global teams. Required: modern language experience (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript), OpenTelemetry concepts, and Kubernetes familiarity.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a software engineer with expertise in at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or TS/JavaScript).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts including tracing, metrics, logs, and Collector configurations.
• Strong cloud observability experience and migrating from legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Solid understanding of HTTP, APIs, YAML/JSON manifests, and config management.
• Experience with testing, debugging, and validating high-cardinality telemetry data.
• Familiarity with Git, PRs, and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML files, env vars, and deployment manifests per architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validation to ensure telemetry is exported correctly.
• Analyze telemetry gaps and compare data between NR and OTel outputs.
• Update dashboards, docs, and runbooks for the new telemetry stack.
• Investigate telemetry errors and coordinate with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Track progress, edge cases, and migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

Tools

OpenTelemetry

OTel Collector

Kubernetes

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, update infrastructure manifests, and validate telemetry across our high-scale ecosystem while preserving visibility.

Work is remote with coordination across US, LATAM, and global teams. Required: modern language experience (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript), OpenTelemetry concepts, and Kubernetes familiarity.