Senior SRE: OpenTelemetry & Observability Migration (Remote)

Bluelightconsulting; Buenos Aires; Remote; ARS 127,737,000 - 255,474,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Contractor payment in USD

100% remote work

Access to Argentine public holidays

Modernizing core observability

Professional development and referrals

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across applications and infrastructure in a fully remote, globally distributed team.

You will instrument and validate telemetry, update manifests, and ensure monitoring coverage while coordinating with US/LATAM teams in a contractor capacity, with payments in USD. This role emphasizes modernizing core platform observability for a high-growth fintech ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as software engineer with one of modern languages (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts: tracing, metrics, logs, and Collector configurations.
• Deep cloud observability experience and migrating off legacy systems (e.g., New Relic).
• Strong ability to read/modify complex YAML/JSON manifests and APIs.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAMLs, env vars, and deployment manifests to match architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validations to ensure telemetry is correctly generated and exported.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

TypeScript/JavaScript

Tools

OpenTelemetry

OTel Collector

Kubernetes

YAML/JSON manifests

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across applications and infrastructure in a fully remote, globally distributed team.

You will instrument and validate telemetry, update manifests, and ensure monitoring coverage while coordinating with US/LATAM teams in a contractor capacity, with payments in USD. This role emphasizes modernizing core platform observability for a high-growth fintech ecosystem.