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Senior Technical Writer

Technical WriterTechnical WriterOtherRemoteSeniorTeam 51-200Since 2019H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

California + 2 moreAll locations: California, New York, Washington

Posted

5 days ago

Salary

$127K - $172K / year

Seniority

Senior

Job Description

• Collaborate with engineering teams to discuss technologies and workflows, and create top-notch documentation • Write, format, and edit content, including security configurations, cluster configuration, and Redpanda Cloud content • Leverage AI tools such as Claude Code, CodeRabbit, and Copilot to work more efficiently • Contribute to web content design–a content design background is a plus • Facilitate knowledge sharing throughout our engineering, product management, and design teams and help produce accurate, well-written communications • Partner with content specialists to define documentation standards and best practices • Participate in assessing and proposing software and methods to continuously improve our documentation processes • Write and revise content/test features with the customer experience as the primary driver • Engage in community discussions with OSS, prospective, and paying customers • Be part of a diverse remote distributed team

Job Requirements

  • 4+ years of experience writing technical documentation for an external developer audience
  • Familiarity with basic software security fundamentals
  • Ability to distill complex technical concepts into clear, comprehensive, developer-focused documentation
  • Experience working with LLMs as both a writer and a user
  • Recent experience working in a docs-as-code environment
  • Understand and have worked on Git, open-source development, Asciidoc/Antora, front-end web development
  • Experience working with open source technologies and communities
  • Read and code in languages such as Java, golang or Python, and YAML–familiarity with data streaming and/or Apache Kafka a plus
  • Excellent information architecture and information design skills
  • Familiar working with Apache Kafka® (event streaming), databases, or distributed systems
  • Rabid desire to help our customers get the information they need quickly and easily
  • Excellent writing, editing, and verbal communication skills.

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