Technical Writer, Spacelift
Contract Position
Collaborative infrastructure for software teams
Posted today
Collaborative infrastructure for software teams
21-100 employees
Posted today
21-100 employees
Company mission
Spacelift’s mission is to help DevOps teams manage their infrastructure as code performance for maximum optimization of scaling businesses.
Role
Who you are
- Native english speaker proficient in US English with 2+ years of Technical Writing experience
- Proven experience as a Technical Writer in a software or technology environment
- Proficiency with Git and GitHub for version control, issue tracking, and collaboration
- Strong technical writing, editing, and communication skills
- Highly collaborative and customer-centric
- Proficiency with MkDocs and Markdown language
- Experience working with UI and developer-facing documentation such as APIs, SDKs, or command-line tools
- Ability to translate complex technical information into easily understandable content
- Basic understanding of DevOps, IT practices, and cloud technologies
- Understanding of additional IT automation and orchestration technologies or software lifecycle management technologies a plus (infrastructure as code, policy as code, CI/CD software and workflows, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, etc)
- Experience contributing to open source projects or maintaining public-facing documentation on GitHub is a plus
- Basic understanding of programming languages (e.g., Python, JavaScript, or similar) a plus
What the job involves
- As a Technical Writer, you will create clear, concise, and user-friendly documentation for our software and SaaS-based products
- You’ll work closely with developers, product managers, customer support, and solution engineering to procure and produce technical content that allows Spacelift users to utilize our products efficiently
- This is a contract position (four months) with the possibility of conversion to full-time employment
- Procure, write, edit, and maintain technical product user documentation
- Translate complex product workflows into digestible, step-by-step documentation for a technical audience
- Collaborate with Development, Product Management, Support, and Solutions Engineering to procure raw information for document inclusion and to ensure technical accuracy
- Develop style guides and standards for contributors from other organizations to follow
- Use GitHub to manage documentation source files, contribute via pull requests, and participate in version control workflows
- Review and edit content contributions from other team members via GitHub, providing clear and constructive feedback
- Improve the consistency and usability of documentation for various technical audiences (experts and novices)
- Lead documentation planning, content audits, and continuous improvement efforts
- Track documentation issues and manage them via GitHub
- Participate in usability testing and incorporate feedback into documentation improvements
Application process
- 30 minutes with Nuria Requena, Talent Acquisition Manager
- 45 minutes introductory video call with Chris Darmofal, Head of Solutions Engineering
- Take-home exercise along with submission of writing samples
- Technical Interview with Aoife O’Carroll, product marketing content creator
- Interview with Bridget Gleason, CRO
- Final interview with Pawel Stajgis, Director of Strategy
- Reference check
Our take
As cloud-native development and DevOps continue to gain momentum, it’s also becoming more difficult to manage infrastructure, particularly for distributed teams in scaling companies.
Spacelift’s solution is an Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) platform, which allows for smooth management of multiple complex cloud infrastructures, and automation of manual tasks, which the company claims to result in greatly reduced outages and downtime.
Having launched in 2020, Spacelift has been quick to scale, running teams in California and Warsaw. While there’s competition in the space, most notably from HashiCorp (which went public in late 2021), the fact that Spacelift has the likes of DocuSign, Figma, Checkout.com, and Lightspeed as customers shows that it’s doing plenty right.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2021
$15m
SERIES B
Feb 2021
$6m
SERIES A
Total funding: $22.6m
Company benefits
- Friendly and supportive work environment
- Medical, dental, and vision plans for employee and any dependents
- 26 days paid time off annually
- Flexible working hours
- Equity package
- Generous monthly allowance
- Team events in remote locations
- Investment day (aka Google’s 20% rule): in addition to regular projects, we encourage our employees to spend Fridays working on what they think will most benefit Spacelift
- Remote work opportunities for some roles
Company HQ
Redwood City, CA
Leadership
Paweł Hytry
(CEO)Co-founded and was Managing Director of FitPass Group from 2014 - 2020, when the company was acquired by Up Group. Previously worked as Managing Director, Central and Eastern Europe at FoodPanda. Founded and served as CEO of corporate event services startup Venueline in 2011.
Marcin Wyszynski
(Software Engineer & CPO)Was a Senior Software Engineer at Deliveroo prior to co-founding Spacelift. Was previously CTO of static analysis startup Codebeat, Production Engineer at Facebook's Dublin team, and worked in Site Reliability Engineering for Google.
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