Senior Technical Writer, Cockroach Labs
$128-169k
+ Equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office
Distributed SQL for always-on customer experiences
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Distributed SQL for always-on customer experiences
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$128-169k
+ Equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To simplify how businesses build and operate world-changing applications.
Role
Who you are
- Extensive experience planning and authoring documentation for engineers or other technical users, through independent research, collaboration with engineers, and hands-on testing
- A proven ability to learn, use, and explain highly technical products and systems quickly and accurately
- Hands-on experience with Linux/Unix systems
- Familiarity with relevant technical domains such as distributed systems, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), containerization and orchestration, networking and security, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, application development workflows, database internals, performance tuning, OpenAPI standards, or one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, Go, JavaScript)
- Proficiency with Git and docs-as-code workflows
- A proven ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, product, and design teams
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a curiosity-driven approach to understanding complex technologies
What the job involves
- We're seeking an experienced technical writer to join our world-class Documentation team
- In this role, you'll create highly impactful technical documentation across the full CockroachDB platform—spanning developer experiences, operations, security, and emerging capabilities
- You'll collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, and other writers to produce public documentation and craft clear, helpful copy across product interfaces
- Beyond user assistance, you'll contribute insights on improving the product, evolving our processes, and collaborating across departments
- Our team is committed to staying ahead of the curve—innovating with AI to analyze content, ensure quality, and eliminate toil, freeing writers to focus on what they do best: producing the most effective content for our customers
- Translate complex, highly technical concepts into clear, actionable documentation for engineers, operators, and technical decision-makers
- Develop in-depth product knowledge and collaborate with engineering and product teams to ensure documentation aligns with user workflows and company priorities
- Write comprehensive content across multiple formats—tutorials, how-to guides, conceptual overviews, reference documentation—and contribute to copy for release notes, UIs, APIs, and CLIs
- Cover topics that may include developer workflows, schema design and migration, deployment automation and scaling, cluster performance and operational best practices, backups and disaster recovery, monitoring and observability, authentication and authorization, network security, vector search and AI workloads, data governance, and more
- Benefit from a balanced work distribution, gaining experience across diverse areas of the product while reserving time for deep dives into larger projects within specific product domains
- Get to know a variety of user workflows and priorities—from developers building applications to operators maintaining critical workloads for high-scale, globally distributed systems
- Collaborate with dedicated documentation infrastructure engineers who build and maintain our tooling. Offer meaningful input into workflows, automation, and other technical solutions that improve how the team works
- Contribute to internal style guides, processes, and policy enhancements within the Documentation team
- Share your learnings and expertise across the team, helping to build collective technical depth and writing excellence
- In your first 30 days, you'll follow a custom onboarding plan that includes Cockroach University courses, internal documentation, and product training. You'll get hands-on experience using CockroachDB and our documentation tools, and start to contribute to the documentation with the supervision of other writers
- By three months in, you'll have developed enough expertise to help prioritize and plan documentation work, contributing independently to the CockroachDB docs site. You'll also engage in initiatives that shape our content standards, processes, and documentation infrastructure
- This role reports to Mike Lewis, a manager on the Documentation team
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
11% employee growth in 12 months
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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