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Senior Technical Writer

Technical WriterTechnical WriterOtherRemoteSeniorTeam 1,001-5,000Since 2014H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

California

Posted

136 days ago

Salary

$155.7K - $183K / year

Seniority

Senior

Bachelor Degree5 yrs expEnglishDistributed SystemsJavaPython

Job Description

Senior Technical Writer

Confluent

• Work cross-functionally with Engineering, Product, Support, and more to create best-of-breed documentation that ensures customer success. • Produce documentation with unified examples, consistent style, and jaw-dropping quality. • Create documentation in an SEO-friendly, LLM-optimized, searchable, browsable, and automated way.

Job Requirements

  • 5+ years experience writing technical documentation for an external developer audience.
  • Excellent writing, editing, and verbal communication skills.
  • Demonstrated portfolio of work that sets the bar for technical documentation.
  • Ability to work in a modern documentation toolchain, including Git and GitHub experience.
  • Experience using reStructuredText, Markdown, or equivalent.
  • Experience reading code in languages such as Java or Python.
  • Experience using cloud products and documenting distributed systems technologies.
  • Proven project management and cross-team collaboration skills.
  • Experience using generative AI tools such as Cursor or GitHub Copilot to help with content creation, code summarization, or to improve writing clarity
  • Bachelor's Degree in English, Technical Writing, Computer Science, Learning Technology, or related field.

Benefits

  • Offers Equity

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