Confluent is looking for a Staff Technical Writer to help document Confluent, a more complete distribution of the Apache Kafka distributed streaming platform. You will make it easy for developers to build a streaming platform and put it at the heart of every company.
What You'll Do
- Work cross-functionally with Engineering, Product, Support, and more to create best-of-breed documentation that ensures customer success.
- Produce documentation with unified examples, consistent style, and jaw-dropping quality.
- Create documentation in an SEO-friendly, LLM-optimized, searchable, browsable, and automated way.
What We're Looking For
- 10+ years experience writing technical documentation for an external developer audience.
- Excellent writing, editing, and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrated portfolio of work that sets the bar for technical documentation.
- Ability to work in a modern documentation toolchain, including Git and GitHub experience.
- Experience using reStructuredText, Markdown, or equivalent.
- Experience reading code in languages such as Java or Python.
- Experience using cloud products and documenting distributed systems technologies.
- Proven project management and cross-team collaboration skills.
- Bachelor's Degree in English, Technical Writing, Computer Science, Learning Technology, or related field.
Nice to Have
- Experience using generative AI tools such as Cursor or GitHub Copilot to help with content creation, code summarization, or to improve writing clarity.
Technical Stack
- Git
- GitHub
- reStructuredText
- Markdown
- Java
- Python
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