Staff Technical Writer, Dremio

• 12+ years of relevant experience in technical writing, product documentation, or online publishing (writing samples required)
• You are passionate about instructional writing, with a focus on clarity, straightforward storytelling, and an information architect's approach to organizing material
• Expert in the field of technical writing, with solid written and verbal communication skills and the ability to quickly establish good working relationships with subject matter experts on multiple teams
• Ability to effectively realign priorities to meet shifting business needs and proactively influence the time requirements of others
• Extensive and demonstrated experience developing content for SaaS and Enterprise applications
• Must be highly detail-oriented, ensuring that you can produce the highest quality deliverables within required timelines to meet goals
• Excellent time and project management skills that will enable you to start, build, and complete multiple documentation initiatives and prioritize your time to align with the organizational goals
• Advanced and working knowledge of SQL, data warehousing, analytics, and public cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, etc.)
• Experience using and documenting APIs and programming languages (Java, Python, etc.)
• Ability to manage and coordinate your work across multiple teams in a fast-paced development environment
• Experience in a docs-as-code environment, using technologies like markdown, Git, and static site generators
• Experience using Atlassian Jira and Confluence for issue tracking and knowledge management
• Demonstrated ability to understand and adapt to new technologies and learn quickly

Desirable

• Research, write, and maintain high-quality technical content (SQL commands and functions, API docs, user guide content)
• Work closely with subject matter experts around Dremio to ensure the quality, accuracy, and discoverability of the content you create
• Quickly learn and use Dremio's products to ensure you can design and write content that is accurate and relevant to the user
• Work with product managers, engineers, and support teams to ensure that all aspects of the Dremio solution are well-documented and easy to find
• Respond to internal requests to improve and evolve our documentation, sometimes on short notice
• Assist in designing and implementing improvements to the architecture and strategies of the documentation team (content management, content reuse, search and discoverability, etc.)
• Help define processes for writing documentation (SQL reference, API reference, user guides, overviews, troubleshooting, etc.) within product and engineering teams
• Work with users outside of the documentation team to encourage contributions to our documentation
• Contribute to and promote high-quality documentation standards and practices
• Must be able to work independently without direction, and review all considerations and to determine how and when work is completed
• Think and plan at the program-level planning, managing all considerations, as you will be involved in broad, organizational, cross-functional initiative planning