Datadog · 15 hours ago
Technical Writer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid Level
$125K/yr - $155K/yr
3+ years expDatadog is a global SaaS business focused on enabling digital transformation and cloud migration. They are seeking a Technical Writer to create engaging technical documentation for their observability and automation products, collaborating closely with product and engineering teams.
AnalyticsCloud ComputingCloud Data ServicesCloud InfrastructureData ManagementDevOpsProductivity ToolsSaaS
Responsibilities
Partner with our product and engineering teams to manage documentation projects and create public user documentation for observability and automation products used by developers
Gather technical details for public documentation by reviewing internal product materials and hands-on testing of products
Create developer-facing documentation and guides for Datadog SDKs, APIs, and developer tools to enable the developer community to onboard and succeed with our products
Collaborate with the documentation team to help maintain documentation standards and contribute to ongoing process improvements
Participate in a business-hours interrupt-handling rotation to respond to documentation questions, requests, and issues as they come up
Review and provide editorial feedback on documentation written by others to help maintain quality and consistency
Qualification
Required
You are a technical writer with at least 3 years of relevant experience writing developer documentation
You are experienced in using Markdown, a static-site generator, and Github to develop and publish documentation with a ‘Docs as Code' approach
You are comfortable reading and understanding code written in at least one programming language (e.g., Java, Ruby, Python)
You are comfortable and familiar with modern infrastructure concepts such as cloud services and containers
You have publicly available technical writing samples
You have experience writing documentation for complex platforms with multiple ways for developers to interact with the product (for example, through a user interface, APIs, or automated workflows)
You have experience using AI tools as part of documentation work
Benefits
New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions
Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
Competitive global benefits
Healthcare
Dental
Parental planning
Mental health benefits
A 401(k) plan and match
Paid time off
Fitness reimbursements
A discounted employee stock purchase plan
Company
Datadog
Datadog is an observability and security platform that offers infrastructure, applications, software development, and monitoring services.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.02BKey Investors
ICONIQ GrowthIndex VenturesOpenView
2024-12-09Post Ipo Debt· $870M
2020-05-28Post Ipo Debt
2019-09-19IPO
Leadership Team
Olivier Pomel
Co-founder, CEO
Alexis Le-Quoc
Co-founder & CTO
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