Software Engineer, Metrics & Telemetry

🚀 About the Job
Help us shape how we understand PackShip's growth. You'll work with Umami, PostHog, and custom telemetry to design scalable, privacy-aware insights across CLI usage, installs, and feature adoption. This is currently an unpaid, open-source contributor role.
Key Responsibilities
Improve real-time metrics and dashboarding.
Collaborate with the CLI team to embed insights directly into dev tooling.
Design systems to help guide product development and release cadence.
🌱 About the Team
We're a small and fast-moving group of developers and builders with deep roots in open source, DX, and developer communities. PackShip began as a weekend project and has evolved into a full-fledged devtool adopted across several ecosystems. Our mission is simple: make package publishing super simple, and empower every developer to ship confidently. We build in public, value async-first workflows, and care deeply about quality, simplicity, and performance.
🧠 About You
We'd Love To Work With You If You
Enjoy building tools for developers and have experience in open-source ecosystems.
Care about clean, maintainable code (especially in TypeScript/Node).
Have an eye for developer experience — from docs to error messages to logs.
Are excited by small teams, fast iteration, and ownership.
Value clear communication and async workflows.
Experience with CLIs, telemetry, bundlers, or technical writing is a huge plus — but we value curiosity and initiative even more.
🎁 What You Get
💻 Remote-first, async-friendly collaboration (work from anywhere)
🧭 Ownership over your work and roadmap input
📚 Open-source portfolio you can proudly showcase
💬 Community recognition across our developer and builder network
🛠️ Paid opportunities for contributors who help shape key product pillars
⚡ Early access to future PackShip products and internal tools
🔗 How to Apply
Interested? Want to contribute or discuss a paid role? Reach out directly via:
Apply on our careers page OR send us a message on LinkedIn
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Join us in building tools developers actually love using.
This is your invitation to ship faster, smarter — and together. 🚢

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