Senior 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:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Partner with product and engineering teams to lead documentation projects and create public user documentation for security, observability, and automation products used by developers, SREs, and security engineers.</li> </ul> <ul> <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> <li>As a senior team member, you also provide coaching, mentoring, and guidance to others on the team.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Who You Are:</strong></p> <ul> <li>You are an experienced technical writer with at least 5 years of experience writing technical documentation for developers, SREs, and security engineers.</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 and familiar with usin