Senior Technical Writer
Skills
Computer ScienceSoftware As A ServiceAdoptionBlueprintContinuous ImprovementFinancial SystemsIdentifying New Opportunities
What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical field plus 8 years of relevant experience
- Hands-on experience in a software engineering or technical product environment with strong writing skills
- Familiarity with developer platform tools and concepts such as GitLab Datadog Jira Confluence Slack Figma CI/CD infrastructure-as-code and SLOs
- Ability to create clear plain-language content for complex digital workflows involving sensitive or transactional data
- Proven ability to reduce confusion form errors and abandonment through structured guidance
- Strong understanding of accessibility standards inclusive language practices and compliance-driven content constraints
- Experience partnering with product legal compliance and engineering to ensure accuracy and integrity
- Ability to use usability findings and performance data to improve content
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to obtain and maintain a High Risk Public Trust clearance
Nice to have
- Collaborative
- Detail-oriented
- Analytical
- Adaptable
- User-focused
Day to day
- Develop and maintain platform engineering documentation, including architecture blueprints, reference architectures, runbooks, and developer guidance.
- Translate complex technical workflows into clear, action-oriented content that reduces onboarding friction and support issues.
- Collaborate with engineers, security, product, and compliance teams to ensure accurate, accessible, and audit-ready documentation.
Hiring process
- Submit application
- Talent team review
- Interview process
- Accommodation support available
