Technical Writer

<p>The Technical Writing &amp; Documentation team creates engaging and informative technical content, particularly our public product documentation: <a href="https://docs.datadoghq.com/">Datadog Docs</a>. Our team is hands-on with the technologies that Datadog monitors and collaborates with technical and product teams to create technical documentation for our APIs, SDKs, developer and security tools, and community developed integrations — thousands of pages of content!&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>What You’ll Do:&nbsp;</strong></p> <ul> <li>Partner with our product and engineering teams to manage documentation projects and create public user documentation for observability and automation products used by developers.</li> <li>Gather technical details for public documentation by reviewing internal product materials and hands-on testing of products.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>Collaborate with the documentation team to help maintain documentation standards and contribute to ongoing process improvements.</li> <li>Participate in a business-hours interrupt-handling rotation to respond to documentation questions, requests, and issues as they come up.</li> <li>Review and provide editorial feedback on documentation written by others to help maintain quality and consistency.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Who You Are:&nbsp;</strong></p> <ul> <li>You are a technical writer with at least 3 years of relevant experience writing developer documentation.</li> <li>You are experienced in using Markdown, a static-site generator, and Github to develop and publish documentation with a ‘Docs as Code’ approach.</li> <li>You are comfortable reading and understanding code written in at least one programming language (e.g., Java, Ruby, Python).</li> <li>You are comfortable and familiar with modern infrastructure concepts such as cloud services and cont