Technical Writer

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TailscaleInternet Security
Remote (United States)Full-TimeMiddle
Salary86000 - 107000 USD per year
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Job Details

Languages
English
Experience
At least 3 years
Required Skills
GitGitHub

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of professional technical writing and editing experience
  • Experience creating high-quality, code-heavy product documentation and how-to guides
  • Hands-on experience with networking or security products
  • Comfortable in technical conversations with practitioners, engineers, and product managers
  • Comfortable with Git
  • Comfortable with GitHub
  • Comfortable with Markdown
  • Comfortable with the command-line interface
  • Experience using a docs-as-code publishing workflow
  • Strong editing skills
  • Ability to drive multiple projects from beginning to completion
  • Ability to collaborate with other writers, editors, product managers, and subject-matter experts
  • Excellent written and verbal English communication skills

Responsibilities

  • Produce, test, and maintain quality, consistent, contextualized, and technically accurate documentation for products
  • Develop how-to guides, conceptual topics, reference guides, and tutorials
  • Write content for diverse audiences including software developers, infrastructure engineers, security practitioners, and decision-makers
  • Update and refine existing content to reflect product changes and feedback
  • Collaborate with subject-matter experts, product managers, and team to plan, organize, write, edit, review, and evolve documentation
  • Collaborate with other content creators to align content with organizational goals and strategies
  • Engage community of users through active participation in community spaces
  • Support engineers and other subject-matter experts who contribute to documentation
  • Contribute to information architecture and platform improvements
  • Become an expert in Tailscale's features and products and understand customer needs
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