Senior Technical Writer, Confluent
CA$125.1-147k
+ Equity
Data streaming platform
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Data streaming platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$125.1-147k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help every organization harness data in motion so they can compete and thrive in the modern world.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years experience writing technical documentation for an external developer audience
- Excellent writing, editing, and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrated portfolio of work that sets the bar for technical documentation
- Ability to work in a modern documentation toolchain, including Git and GitHub experience
- Experience using reStructuredText, Markdown, or equivalent
- Experience reading code in languages such as Java or Python
- Experience using cloud products and documenting distributed systems technologies
- Proven project management and cross-team collaboration skills
- Experience using generative AI tools such as Cursor or GitHub Copilot to help with content creation, code summarization, or to improve writing clarity
- Bachelor's Degree in English, Technical Writing, Computer Science, Learning Technology, or related field
What the job involves
- Confluent is looking for an expert Technical Writer to help document Confluent, a more complete distribution of the Apache Kafka distributed streaming platform. We are looking for a writer with a passion for technology and communication. Confluent has a culture that values documentation, which means you will get contributions from engineers, the community, and more! You will make it easy for developers to build a streaming platform and put it at the heart of every company
- Work cross-functionally with Engineering, Product, Support, and more to create best-of-breed documentation that ensures customer success
- Produce documentation with unified examples, consistent style, and jaw-dropping quality
- Create documentation in an SEO-friendly, LLM-optimized, searchable, browsable, and automated way
Our take
Confluent is a commercial company built on top of the open-source Apache Kafka project. Confluent and Kafka have developed a streaming data technology that processes massive amounts of information in real-time. The streaming database technology was developed at LinkedIn as a way of moving massive amounts of messages. The company decided to open-source that tech in 2011, and Confluent launched as the commercial arm in 2014.
While the base open-source component remains available for free download, it doesn’t include the additional tooling the company has built to make it easier for enterprises to use Kafka. Confluent's value add is in those additional tools, including a cloud version of the product and a marketplace for sharing extensions to the platform.
Confluent expanded strategic partnerships with Microsoft and acquired Immerok, and in 2023 expanded its cloud platform. 2024 saw further product expansions with the launch of the Confluent Migration Accelerator, all exemplifying how the company is living up to its name by rocket-boosting the benefits of Apache Kafka integration for companies.
Now, it looks like IBM is eyeing the company for acquisition and Confluent looks to be a natural fit. Long positioned as the real-time backbone behind modern application, Confluent would gain global scale and an even deeper enterprise reach under iBM, while cementing its role at the center of AI-driven architectures. For COnfluent, the deal would marka shift from fast-growing independent disruptor to foundational infrastructure player powering the next wave of enterprise AI.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2020
$250m
SERIES E
Jan 2019
$125m
SERIES D
Total funding: $455.9m
Company HQ
Old Mountain View, Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Jay Kreps
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to co-founding Confluent in 2014, Jay spent 7 years at LinkedIn, holding various roles including Principal Engineer and Principal Staff Engineer.
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