Cockroach Labs is hiring a Technical Writer to join our Documentation team within the Education Department. In this role, you will author high-impact technical documentation across the full CockroachDB platform, serving developers, operators, and decision-makers.

What You'll Do

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, and data governance.
Gain experience across diverse product areas while reserving time for deep dives into larger projects within specific domains.
Collaborate with dedicated documentation infrastructure engineers to improve workflows, automation, and tooling.
Contribute to internal style guides, processes, and policy enhancements.
Share your learnings and expertise across the team to build collective technical depth and writing excellence.

What We're Looking For

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.

Technical Stack

Git
Linux/Unix
AWS, GCP, Azure
Python, Java, Go, JavaScript

Team & Environment

The Documentation team is part of the Education Department, within the Product Division. You will report to Mike Lewis, a manager on the Documentation team.