
Senior Technical Writer
Confluent
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Canada
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Salary
💰 CA$125,100 - CA$147,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- 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.
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
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Hard skills
technical documentationreStructuredTextMarkdownJavaPythoncloud productsdistributed systemsgenerative AI toolscontent creationcode summarization
Soft skills
writingeditingverbal communicationproject managementcross-team collaboration
Certifications
Bachelor's Degree in EnglishBachelor's Degree in Technical WritingBachelor's Degree in Computer ScienceBachelor's Degree in Learning Technology