Datadog provides cloud-scale monitoring and security for metrics, traces and logs in one unified platform.

Technical Writer

Technical WriterTechnical WriterFull TimeRemoteTeam 1,001-5,000Since 2010H1B SponsorCompany Site LinkedIn

Location

California + 4 more

Posted

39 days ago

Salary

$125K - $155K / year

3 yrs expEnglishCloudJavaPythonRuby

Job Description

• Partner with our product and engineering teams to manage documentation projects and create public user documentation for observability and automation products used by developers. • Gather technical details for public documentation by reviewing internal product materials and hands-on testing of products. • Create developer-facing documentation and guides for Datadog SDKs, APIs, and developer tools to enable the developer community to onboard and succeed with our products. • Collaborate with the documentation team to help maintain documentation standards and contribute to ongoing process improvements. • Participate in a business-hours interrupt-handling rotation to respond to documentation questions, requests, and issues as they come up. • Review and provide editorial feedback on documentation written by others to help maintain quality and consistency.

Job Requirements

You are a technical writer with at least 3 years of relevant experience writing developer documentation.
You are experienced in using Markdown, a static-site generator, and Github to develop and publish documentation with a ‘Docs as Code’ approach.
You are comfortable reading and understanding code written in at least one programming language (e.g., Java, Ruby, Python).
You are comfortable and familiar with modern infrastructure concepts such as cloud services and containers.
You have publicly available technical writing samples.
You have experience writing documentation for complex platforms with multiple ways for developers to interact with the product (for example, through a user interface, APIs, or automated workflows).
You have experience using AI tools as part of documentation work.

Benefits

New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions
Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
Competitive global benefits