Technical Writer, CircleCI
$83-104k
Canada Base Pay Range: $78,000—$97,000 CAD
Continuous integration and deployment services
Job no longer available
Continuous integration and deployment services
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$83-104k
Canada Base Pay Range: $78,000—$97,000 CAD
201-500 employees
Company mission
To manage change so software teams can innovate faster, empowering technology-driven organizations to do their best work – and making engineering teams more productive and innovative.
Role
Who you are
- Demonstrable body of work communicating complex technical concepts in concise, well-organized writing
- Broad understanding of software development tools and practices - being an active engineer isn't necessary but have a feel for how different teams build software
- Familiarity with the basics of git and GitHub pull requests
- A desire to delve into a myriad of different tools, languages, and frameworks
- At CircleCI, you’ll need to be able to climb the learning curve on the core idioms of most major programming languages and frameworks as well as various methods for deploying code into production environments
- Experience with using markup languages to write docs/content (AsciiDoc, Markdown, reStructuredText, etc
What the job involves
- As a Technical Writer on our Engineering team, you will work closely with our various engineering teams, product team, and others to deliver the documentation used by tens of thousands of developers to help them succeed at delivering software through CircleCI
- Support our customer engineering, platform engineering, and other teams to understand the capabilities of our CI/CD platform
- We then communicate those capabilities to our users such that they can get maximum value from our platform
- You will update documentation regularly, write new material as needed, and solicit guidance from across the company
- As open source is important, this role would serve as a primary point of contact for customer contributions to our open source documentation repository
- Organize, edit, and be a contributing writer to CircleCI Docs
- Work with our engineering and product teams to analyze changes and new features as they are released to identify any changes needed to keep the documentation up-to-date
- Solicit and coordinate internal and external input sent as comments or as pull requests to our documentation repository
- Contribute to and uphold our docs style guide, and work with the team to plan and drive efforts to improve consistency in both prose and information architecture
Our take
Engineering has seen the rise of agile, containerisation and DevOps over the last few years. As a result, the idea of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) has grown to be an important part of the engineering space. CircleCI is one company that taps into this field, offering a lightweight and open service.
There are now a lot more companies that have a culture of continuous delivery. CircleCI specifically helps automate all the steps that occur between the time developers make changes to the code and when the application gets in front of the customer. The company has a strong tailwind from this macro trend and their product is loved by engineers, putting them in a strong place to build a strong business.
Services in the sector have grown constricted and cost-heavy, but in 2022, CircleCI debuted a free tier service for engineering teams in a move away from this. By offering flexibility across an increased number of major platforms, including Docker, Windows, and MacOS, the company works towards its ultimate aim to empower technology-driven organisations.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
May 2021
$100m
SERIES F
Apr 2020
$100m
SERIES E
Total funding: $315m
Company benefits
- Remote-first company
- Home office stipend
- Unlimited PTO
- Generous parental leave
- Health benefits that can cover employees and dependents up to 100%
- Quarterly wellness days, a free Calm subscription, wellness reimbursement, and Cleo for new parents
- Opportunities to learn new skills, including project-based learning and presentations from our colleagues
- Udemy for on-demand learning, and an annual stipend for personal development outside of CircleCI
Company HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Jim Rose
(CEO)Joined CircleCI as COO. Serial entrepreneur, founding Distiller (acquired by CircleCI) and Copious.
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