Senior Technical Writer

Confluent

13d

About The Position

Confluent is looking for an expert Technical Writer to help document Confluent, a more complete distribution of the Apache Kafka distributed streaming platform. We are looking for a writer with a passion for technology and communication. Confluent has a culture that values documentation, which means you will get contributions from engineers, the community, and more! You will make it easy for developers to build a streaming platform and put it at the heart of every company.

Requirements

• 5+ 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.
• Experience using generative AI tools such as Cursor or GitHub Copilot to help with content creation, code summarization, or to improve writing clarity
• Bachelor's Degree in English, Technical Writing, Computer Science, Learning Technology, or related field.

Responsibilities

• 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 This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees