Senior Technical Writer
Remote
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At GitLab, our team of technical writers is responsible for ensuring that the documentation for all of our products is clear, correct, comprehensive, and easy to use. The Technical Writing team manages the docs.gitlab.com site and its content, processes, and tooling.
As a Technical Writer at GitLab, youâll collaborate with Engineers, who typically write the first draft of docs for the new features they create. Youâll dive in on special projects, planning and authoring new content and helping craft new doc site features and processes. Youâll collaborate with others across the organization to help them contribute to the documentation. Youâll be at the leading edge of DevSecOps while contributing to one of the worldâs largest open-source projects and engaging with our wider community.
What youâll do Â
- Continuously improve GitLab documentation content in collaboration with engineers, product managers, and others.
- Work on Quarterly OKRs that focus on making our docs site a world-class experience, such as rewriting our existing documentation to align with concept, task, reference, and troubleshooting (CTRT) topic types.
- Peer review other writers' work.
- Continuously improve team processes and style guides, as well as cross-functional efforts, such as the GitLab Handbook.
- Take part in company-wide events such as reviewing merge requests for Hackathons.
What youâll bringÂ
- Must have demonstrated experience writing software documentation in a docs-as-code approach (this is a hard requirement)
- Hands on experience with Git
- Experience working with CI/CD
- Exemplary writing and editing skills
- Remote development experience
- Experience working in a highly collaborative environment
About the team
Thanks to our Transparency value, you can see what we are working on in our Documentation Roadmap epic. You can also listen to Technical Writing team members talking about what itâs like to be a Technical Writer at GitLab in this video.Â
Technical Writer role discussion
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Tasks- Collaborate with engineers
- Hiring
- Peer Review
- Special projects
CD CI CI/CD Collaboration DevSecOps Documentation Editing Git GitLab Recruiting Sales Talent Acquisition Technical Writing Writing