Senior SRE - OpenTelemetry Migration (Remote)

Bluelightconsulting; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 103,769,000 - 172,948,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Payment in USD

Remote work (international)

Argentine public holidays

Professional development resources

Job summary

Darwoft is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for Observability Migration on a global contractor basis. You will lead the transition of telemetry from New Relic to an OpenTelemetry Collector architecture, re-instrumenting applications and updating manifests. Strong API, YAML, and testing practices are required, with exposure to Kubernetes and cloud observability.

This is a fully remote role with USD compensation. Work with US/LATAM teams and ensure uninterrupted monitoring during migration.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JS/TS).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts: tracing, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector.
• Strong cloud observability experience and migration from legacy systems.
• Reading/modifying complex YAML/JSON manifests; HTTP/API familiarity.
• Testing, debugging logs, and validating high-cardinality telemetry.
• Experience with Git and CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAMLs, env vars, and deployment manifests per architecture.
• Run unit tests and validation to ensure telemetry output is correct.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing data sources and outputs.
• Update dashboards and runbooks to reflect OTel architecture.
• Investigate collection/export errors and collaborate with platform engineers.
• Track progress, edge cases, and migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Cloud observability

YAML/JSON manifests

Git & CI/CD

Tools

OTel Collector

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Darwoft is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for Observability Migration on a global contractor basis. You will lead the transition of telemetry from New Relic to an OpenTelemetry Collector architecture, re-instrumenting applications and updating manifests. Strong API, YAML, and testing practices are required, with exposure to Kubernetes and cloud observability.

This is a fully remote role with USD compensation. Work with US/LATAM teams and ensure uninterrupted monitoring during migration.