Senior SRE: OpenTelemetry & Observability Lead (Remote)

Bluelightconsulting; Tandil; Remote; ARS 159,671,000 - 255,474,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% remote work

USD payment

International teams

Job summary

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

This is a 100% remote contractor role coordinating with US, LATAM, and global teams. The role requires hands-on OTel experience, strong debugging skills, and proficiency with modern languages.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineer with one of Java, Python, Go, or JS/TS.
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts and Collector configurations.
• Cloud observability experience and migration from legacy platforms.
• Understanding of HTTP, APIs, and YAML/JSON manifests.
• Strong testing, debugging, and telemetry data validation.
• Familiarity with Git, PRs, and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configurations, env vars, and deployment manifests.
• Run unit tests and validate telemetry outputs end-to-end.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis and identify missing traces, metrics, logs.
• Assist in updating dashboards and troubleshooting guides for OTEL architecture.
• Investigate errors and collaborate with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Track progress, edge cases, and migration risks.

Skills

OpenTelemetry

YAML/JSON manifests

CI/CD workflows

Distributed tracing

HTTP/API knowledge

Cloud observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

OpenTelemetry Collector

Kubernetes

Git & CI/CD tooling

Job description

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

This is a 100% remote contractor role coordinating with US, LATAM, and global teams. The role requires hands-on OTel experience, strong debugging skills, and proficiency with modern languages.