Sr. Observability Engineer: OpenTelemetry Migration Remote

CXT Software; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 206,960,000 - 310,441,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Payment in USD

100% remote work

Access to Argentine public holidays

Direct involvement in modernizing core

Professional development

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration, moving telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry, re-instrumenting applications, updating manifests, and ensuring monitoring coverage during a high-scale fintech migration. This is a contractor role, fully remote with global teams across the US, LATAM, and beyond.

You will collaborate on dashboards, runbooks, and validation suites, bringing advanced English, OTEL expertise, and modern delivery practices to ensure

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience in at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts including tracing, metrics, logs, and collectors.
• Experience migrating from legacy observability platforms to OTEL.
• Strong knowledge of YAML/JSON manifests and environment configurations.
• Familiarity with Git and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update deployment manifests and environment variables per architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validation to ensure accurate telemetry export.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis against OTEL outputs.
• Update dashboards, runbooks, and docs for the new architecture.
• Investigate telemetry issues and collaborate with platform engineers.
• Maintain progress tracking and communicate migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Cloud observability

YAML/JSON manifests

Testing & debugging

Git & CI/CD

Tools

OTel Collector

Kubernetes

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration, moving telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry, re-instrumenting applications, updating manifests, and ensuring monitoring coverage during a high-scale fintech migration. This is a contractor role, fully remote with global teams across the US, LATAM, and beyond.

You will collaborate on dashboards, runbooks, and validation suites, bringing advanced English, OTEL expertise, and modern delivery practices to ensure