Lead Technical Writer, Spectro Cloud
$120-170k
Integrated Kubernetes platform
Job no longer available
Integrated Kubernetes platform
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$120-170k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make infrastructure boundaryless for the enterprise, from data center to edge.
Role
Who you are
- At least six years of experience as a technical writer
- At least one year of experience in a lead role that requires mentoring other writers and providing guidance
- Excellent communication skills, both written and orally
- A self-starter with the ability to dive into technical features by themselves and create documentation
- Experience in analyzing information architecture and restructuring content
- Able to coach and mentor other technical writers
- Comfortable writing in markdown and operating in a Docs as Code workflow
- Comfortable using developer tools such as git, CLIs, Docker, and GitHub
- Familiar with containers and virtual machines
- Comfortable working in a remote setting and with a remote-first culture
- Experience with public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle)
- Comfortable creating diagrams and visual resources to help the learning process
- Displays a passion for learning and exploring new technologies
- A self-starter with a strong sense of ownership
- Experience with CSS, JavaScript, and HTML
What the job involves
- As a Lead Technical Writer, you will help lead the technical writing team, improve writing practices, and champion technical documentation
- In your day-to-day, you will manage the backlog engineering tracks and create reference material, diagrams, and how-tos for our practitioners to help them better understand the product
- We have a technical product, so we require individuals who are comfortable with developer workflows and using the same tools as developers, such as git, Kubernetes, virtual machines, command line interfaces, GitHub, containers, Docker, cloud providers, and Terraform
- Internal efforts to improve the writing architecture and quality of the writing are underway
- You will play a key role in improving the existing documentation and shaping the future of the Docs platform, including its content
Application process
- The interview process is divided into four sections: a screening interview, a technical interview, a writing and information architecture discussion, and a culture and team fit interview
- Screening Interview—This is a thirty-minute interview during which we verify whether we are a good fit for each other. We’ll ask questions to learn more about your career experience and technical writing skills
- Technical Interview - a sixty-minute interview where we verify your technical teaching capability, writing skills, and technical knowledge. We use a writing assignment to validate your teaching and writing capabilities. The writing assignment is not a pass or fail but instead utilized as an indicator to help us understand your current abilities
- Writing & Information Architecture - a thirty-minute interview where we review your understanding of composing, writing, and structuring information
- Culture/Team Interview—This is another thirty-minute interview. The questions here focus on your experience working in a team setting. Other questions check for organizational core values and culture fit
Our take
Since its release in 2014, Kubernetes has seen widespread adoption as a cloud-native data center for software companies and those using clusters of tools. Spectro Cloud helps companies and organizations using Kubernetes to deploy and manage the software across all stages of a product’s life cycle.
Founded by former employees of legacy software company Cisco, Spectro Cloud was created in 2019 to offer decentralized architecture, frictionless onboarding, management, and security for application building. Its Kubernetes management platform, Palette, works end-to-end to support the product lifecycle, allowing users to build for "what they need now and in the future."
As enterprises grapple with soaring AI infrastructure costs and underutilized GPUs, the company's new platform PaletteAI, with Nvidia integration, positions the company to tackle one of the industry's most persistent pain points - efficiency. By simplifying deployment and dramatically improving GPU utilization, Spectro Cloud is carving out a compelling role as the connective layer helping organizations turn expansive AI investments into real value.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Nov 2024
$75m
SERIES C
Mar 2022
$40m
SERIES B
Total funding: $142.5m
Company HQ
North San Jose, San Jose, CA
Leadership
Tenry Fu
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously a Senior Director at Cisco, CTO at CliQr Technologies, Staff Engineer at VMware Inc and Software Engineer at McAfee Inc.
Saad Malik
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously a Director of Engineering at Cisco and a Software Engineering Manager at CliQr Technologies.
Joshi Gautam
(Co-Founder & Engineering VP)Previously a Director of Engineering at Cisco, VP of Engineering at CliQr Technologies and Engineer at Mavatar Technologies.
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