Percona
Technical Writer - PostgreSQL
Employer explicitly allows international or location-independent remote work.
Worldwide
Employer listed it 4 weeks ago · Added 4 days ago
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Salary
Not stated
Location
Worldwide
Timezone
Not stated
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Mid
Category
Software
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Remote flexibility
Work from anywhere
The employer explicitly allows candidates to work from anywhere in the world, with no stated country restriction.
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About the role
We are looking for a talented and flexible Technical Writer to join one of our distributed open-source software development teams. You will work on the PostgreSQL database and related components, in close collaboration with our dedicated PostgreSQL team.
Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL brings together essential enterprise components from the broader PostgreSQL open-source community into a single, integrated distribution designed and tested to ensure compatibility.
You will represent our voice to our technical customers and provide complete, clear documentation for our PostgresSQL products . We seek someone committed to delivering consistent, high-quality, and on-time documentation, whether in the form of guides, user manuals, help files, or man pages. You should be comfortable working in version-controlled environments, as we adopt a docs-as-code methodology.
You will be embedded in the PostgreSQL team, but also working alongside the Product Documentation team, which comprises several technical writers dedicated to developing a scalable documentation strategy that drives user adoption and effective use of our products. You are expected to collaborate with the other writers as we aim to continuously improve our practices.
Location/time zone
Remote work from home. Open to worldwide candidates, but the team median is UTC-2, so we recommend candidates operate within +/- 4 hours of this baseline.
What you will do
Create all technical documentation from install/configuration/troubleshooting guides, how-tos, user manuals, man pages, to --help prompts
Participate in team ceremonies. Collaborate with the Engineering Manager, Product Manager, Devs, and QA to output high-quality documentation
Use text, markdown, images, and diagrams to ensure that audiences of all experience levels can extract value from our documentation
Leverage AI tooling to quickly draft, polish, format, and refine content
Maintain documentation versioning and be a contributor to our overall documentation strategy
Your experience
Graduate-level written English and excellent verbal communication skills
Experience with documenting complex systems and writing user-oriented documentation
3+ years of experience as a technical writer and ability to write high-quality and precise documentation
Experience with markup languages (Markdown preferred)
Experience with the installation and configuration of database server software on Linux
Docs-as-code experience. Knowledge of Jenkins, git, Markdown, HTML, and/or JavaScript (strongly recommended)
Experience in leveraging AI tooling for documentation purposes
Comfortable with Linux command line
Distributed system development and/or database server development
Fluent in developer tools like git, gcc, gdb
Working autonomously in a globally distributed organization
Requirements
- ·Experience with documenting complex systems and writing user-oriented documentation
- ·3+ years of experience as a technical writer and ability to write high-quality and precise documentation
- ·Experience with markup languages (Markdown preferred)
- ·Experience with the installation and configuration of database server software on Linux
- ·Docs-as-code experience. Knowledge of Jenkins, git, Markdown, HTML, and/or JavaScript (strongly recommended)
Benefits
No benefits package published with this listing. Ask about it at first interview.
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, work from anywhere, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at Percona, mentioning your remote working experience.
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
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