At New Relic, docs are a core component of the product experience. Our words bring life and personality to our products. Were here to help users understand our platform, onboard, and ultimately become power users. Our writing helps our users build better software and love our products even more.Heard of GenAI and ChatGPT? At New Relic, we are constantly looking for new and exciting ways to use AI to improve our content and the way we work. From using it as a writing assistant to identifying and plugging gaps in the documentation, we are an AI-first team.Here, youll join a team of passionate writers looking to do the best work of their careers, united by a curiosity for the finer points of writing and technology. If that sounds as exciting to you as it does to us, lets talk!
What youll do
Write, edit, and architect our docs. Ensure the content gets our users all the info they need, without too much info getting in the way. Scope and ship documentation for new features. You see the value in our products, not just the features, and create docs that show off the value without boring our users. Clarify complexity. Speak to developers in a language they can understand, and write approachable technical documentation for complex concepts. Work in-person with a highly-collaborative team of writers. You discover gaps and opportunities, and lead team discussions on topics from voice and tone to improving our processes.
This role requires
Must have: Proven experience as a technical writer for an agile software company. Outstanding technical writing skills. You cut quickly through jargon, write and rewrite until your meaning is crystal-clear. Youre passionate about software, and you can prove it. You get hands-on with your tools and software and make them work for you. You can read and write some code youre not a developer, but you know enough to ask the right questions. Experience working with software developers, so you know how developers think and communicate. Our products are built by devs for devs! A strong opinion about the Oxford comma.
Bonus points if you have
Experience authoring content in a static, GitHub-based site.
Knowledge of the observability industry or SRE practices, and familiarity with the tools like Kubernetes or AWS used to build modern platforms.
Were looking for bold and passionate people to be a part of our mission to create more perfect software.
Wed love to have you apply, even if you dont feel you meet every single requirement.Whats most important to us is finding authentic and accountable people who feel connected to our mission and values, not just candidates who check off all the boxes.
Fostering a diverse, welcoming and inclusive environment is important to us. We work hard to make everyone feel comfortable bringing their best, most authentic selves to work every day. We celebrate our talented Relics different backgrounds and abilities, and recognize the different paths they took to reach us - including nontraditional ones. Their experiences and perspectives inspire us to make our products and company the best they can be. We re looking for people who feel connected to our mission and values, not just candidates who check off all the boxes.
If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application or recruiting process, please reach out to resume@newrelic.com .
We believe in empowering all Relics to achieve professional and business success through a flexible workforce model. This model allows us to work in a variety of workplaces that best support our success, including fully office-based, fully remote, or hybrid.
Our hiring process
In compliance with applicable law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work and to complete employment eligibility verification. Note: Our stewardship of the data of thousands of customers means that a criminal background check is required to join New Relic.
We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records based on individual circumstances and in accordance with applicable law including, but not limited to, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance .
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Candidates are evaluated based on qualifications, regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, age, disability, neurodiversity, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other legally protected characteristics.