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Redpanda Data is a cost-efficient streaming data platform that is compatible with Kafka APIs. The company strives to ensure a user-friendly platform and simplify real-time data whi
Senior Technical Writer
Location
California + 2 moreAll locations: California | New York | Washington
Posted
77 days ago
Salary
$127K - $172K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Technical Writer
Redpanda Data
• 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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