Technical Writer (3-7 yrs)

Job Description :

Responsibilities :

- Create, revise, expand, and publish technical documentation to satisfy the needs of an ever-improving and maturing enterprise database software platform.

- The primary focus is technical documentation database language and command specifications and manuals, user guides, tutorials, FAQs, and release notes.

- Interact with multiple teams, including Product and various Engineering groups, mostly located in the US.

- Interview and converse with developers and other subject matter experts to understand product features and how they are used.

Required skills and experience :

- Demonstrated ability to write in American English, alternately to a technical audience or a business / general user audience.

- Samples of writing required.

- Programming language knowledge

- Working knowledge of software developer's jargon.

- Familiarity with common concepts, syntax and structures for common programming languages such as Java and Python. (SQL is a plus.)

- Familiarity with conventions for documenting command syntax and options.

- Ability to read and write code samples and to format code nicely (e.g., use of indentation and capitalization).

- Ability to navigate a Linux file system and to run software from the command line.

- Familiarity with the Git version control system.

- Ability to coordinate with US based business and technical stakeholders during some overlap with US timezone for meetings.

Preferred :

- Experience writing with Antora, AsciiDoc syntax, HTML, and CSS.

- 3 to 7 years experience authoring technical documentation, preferably for software developers.

- Knowledge of database and enterprise software terminology