Remote Senior Technical Writer Job in San Francisco, CA DigitalOcean

Who you are

• 7+ years minimum of job related experience producing technical content
• Experience with AI/ML
• Strong research skills and the ability to pick up new technical concepts quickly
• A portfolio of published writing for a technical audience on cloud computing or related concepts can be professional or personal work
• Experience with working from the Linux command line including installing and configuring a variety of software
• Software version control and ability to use a Git-based workflow for writing collaboration
• Documentation of in-process software
• Writing content in Markdown
• The ability to give and receive feedback to arrive at the best possible experience for users
• Experience working remotely or collaborating from an office with remote teams
• Excellent organizational skills and time management
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills

Desirables

• Requirements gathering
• Acceptance testing experience
• Agile product experience
• Experience with static site generators
• Atlassian tools
• Experience with Slack

What the job involves

• Verifying and explaining the technical functionality of in-progress and release-ready cloud-based products in particular our AI/ML offering Paperspace
• Collaborating with product design engineering product management and product marketing to create user-focused documentation for novice and experienced software developers
• Reviewing other team members' writing
• Maintaining existing documentation as changes are introduced to existing products
• Editing content written by product managers support advocates and engineers
• Publishing content written in Markdown and Hugo reviewed on GitHub to our content portal at docs digitalocean com
• Continually improving the writing team's content style and processes