Confluent · 4 hours ago
Senior Technical Writer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$156K/yr - $183K/yr
5+ years expConfluent is a company focused on transforming data movement and enabling real-time data experiences. They are seeking an expert Technical Writer to document their Apache Kafka distribution, ensuring high-quality documentation that supports developers in building a streaming platform.
AnalyticsCloud Data ServicesEnterprise SoftwareOpen Source
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
Qualification
Required
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
Company
Confluent
Confluent offers a streaming platform based on Apache Kafka that enables companies to easily access data as real-time streams.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$459.6MKey Investors
CoatueSequoia CapitalIndex Ventures
2025-12-08Acquired
2021-06-24IPO
2021-06-10Secondary Market
Leadership Team
Jun Rao
Co-founder
Chad Verbowski
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