Technical Writer

The Technical Writing & Documentation team creates engaging and informative technical content, particularly our public product documentation: Datadog Docs. 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, and a monthly product newsletter — thousands of pages of content! 

What You’ll Do: 

• Partner with our product and engineering teams, manage documentation projects, and create public user documentation. Author documentation for Workflow Automation and App Builder.
• Dig into source code for community and internally developed systems to collect technical details for documentation.
• 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.
• Collaborate with the docs team and our open source community to develop documentation standards and continually improve our processes.
• Depending on the individual and team capacity, you may also contribute to our monthly newsletter, sent to over 500,000 customers per month.

Who You Are: 

• You are a technical writer with experience developing developer documentation.
• You are experienced in using Markdown, a static-site generator, and Github to develop and publish documentation with a ‘Docs as Code’ approach.
• You are comfortable reading and understanding code written in at least two programming languages (e.g. Java, Ruby, Python).
• You are comfortable and familiar with modern infrastructure such as IaaS cloud services and containers.
• You have publicly available technical writing samples.
• You have written or managed server-side software and documentation.
• Bonus points if you have experience with Developer communications, like writing newsletters.

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply. 

Benefits and Growth: 

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
• Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions
• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
• Competitive global benefits
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