Staff Technical Writer, Cockroach Labs

$130-185k

Actual salaries may vary and fall outside of this range depending on factors such as a candidate’s qualifications, geographic location, skills, experience, and competencies.

Git

Senior and Expert level

New York

Distributed SQL for always-on customer experiences

Job no longer available

Distributed SQL for always-on customer experiences

501-1000 employees

B2BData storageBig dataSaaSCloud Computing

Job no longer available

$130-185k

Actual salaries may vary and fall outside of this range depending on factors such as a candidate’s qualifications, geographic location, skills, experience, and competencies.

Git

Senior and Expert level

New York

501-1000 employees

B2BData storageBig dataSaaSCloud Computing

Company mission

To simplify how businesses build and operate world-changing applications.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

8+ recent years of experience producing documentation for technical audiences
Experience using most of the following: Unix/Linux systems, public cloud services, containers and orchestration, database-specific technologies, SaaS tools for developers, Git, and docs-as-code workflows
Experience with tools, concepts, and best practices related to networking, security, DevOps, and infrastructure as code
Coding experience
Extensive experience related to the listed job responsibilities of authoring and collaborating on documentation

What the job involves

Join our world-class Documentation team. As a member of this team, you’ll create outstanding content that helps our growing community of customers and open-source users to succeed.
Your work will span our product areas, concentrating on a short list of areas, such as Security or Observability, and shifting focus based on our content needs and strategy
Develop technical expertise in CockroachDB, expand your expertise in related technologies, and learn the perspectives of our users as they configure, use, and troubleshoot CockroachDB
Guide architects and operators as they plan to migrate to, secure, maintain, and monitor CockroachDB clusters—whether self-hosted or fully managed in CockroachDB Cloud
Educate developers as they navigate features unique to CockroachDB while working with a familiar SQL interface
Write concise and informative documentation in appropriate formats, such as tutorials, concepts, and references. Provide clear explanations of complex topics and features, and work with engineers to produce comprehensive reference content
Understand the information architecture of the Cockroach Labs documentation corpus and apply this understanding across your projects
Help define and evolve the team’s processes and style conventions
Understand the tooling and systems that power the public documentation, and recommend improvements and enhancements to our Docs Infrastructure team
Regularly collaborate with other teams such as Engineering, Product, Training, Support, and Customer Success to keep our documentation up-to-date, effective, and user-centric

Our take

Cockroach Labs was founded by a team of ex-Google employees who wanted to build a database management system similar to Google’s Spanner. The result is CockroachDB, an open-source, distributed SQL database that delivers familiar SQL, strong consistency, and near-indestructible fault tolerance. Designed to scale locally or globally and deployed on any cloud or on-prem setup, it keeps mission-critical applications running even through hardware failures or full data-center outages.

A major milestone in the company's growth is its partnership with IBM ,which integrates CockroachBD into IBM's hybrid infrastructure. This makes it far easier for long-standing mainframe users to modernize without rewriting massive amounts of code. Running CockroachDB on systems like LinuxONE, Linux on Z, Power Systems, and Red Hat OpenShift helps organizations adopt cloud-native architectures while staying in environments they trust. At the same time, enterprise demand is surging and the company is boasting significant year-on-year growth in new customers, ARR, and cloud adoption.

As applications become more global, always-on, and increasingly AI-driven, businesses need databases built for scale, resilience, and zero downtime. And CockroachDB was engienered for exaclt ythat. With a decade of innovation, expanding enterprise traction, and a leadership team experienced in scaling high-growth tech companies, Cockroach Labs is set to power the next generation of mission-critical applications.

Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

11% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.9)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)

Dec 2021

$278m

SERIES F

Jan 2021

$160m

SERIES E

Total funding: $633.2m

Company benefits

Competitive Health Insurance Coverage
Paid Parental Leave
Flexible PTO
Learning & Development
Relocation Support
Employee Referral Bonus

Company HQ

Chelsea, New York, NY

Leadership

Spencer Kimball

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Worked at WeGo Systems as CTO for 3 years before joining Google as a Software Engineer for almost 10 years. Also, previous CTO of Viewfinder and Engineer at Square.

Peter Matiss

(Co-Founder & CTO)

Previously a Software Engineer at Square, Co-Founder at Viewfinder and a Software Engineer at Google.

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