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Senior Technical Writer
Location
California
Posted
136 days ago
Salary
$155.7K - $183K / year
Seniority
Senior
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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