Sr. Technical Writer

<div class="job-post-container" style="position: relative; background-color: white; padding: 20px; max-width: 1000px; margin: 0 auto; box-shadow: 0px 0px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); min-height: 500px; border: 5px solid #0037A5;"> <div style="position: absolute; top: 0; left: 2; width: 200px; height: 300px; margin-top: 30px; opacity: 1; z-index: 1;"> </div> <div class="job-post-content" style="position: relative; z-index: 2;"> <h1 style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 20px; text-align: center;"><img style="max-width: 100%; float: left;" src="https://i.imgur.com/b9m4CJj.jpeg" alt="" width="92"></h1> <h1 style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 20px; text-align: center;"> </h1> <h1 style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 20px; text-align: center;"> </h1> <h1 style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 20px; text-align: center;">Category-defining tech. Career-defining work.</h1> <p style="text-align: center;">Lots of tech companies disrupt. But, many fail when they try to scale. We're different. CockroachDB makes it easier for companies to build and scale apps. This is how and why we're helping some of the most innovative companies on the planet. We tackle problems head-on and focus on solutions that create lasting impact. </p> <h3 style="text-align: center;">Because when our customers win, we all win. </h3> <p> </p> <hr> <h2><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong>The Role</strong></span></h2> <p>We're seeking an experienced technical writer to join our world-class Documentation team.</p> <p>In this role, you'll create highly impactful technical documentation across the full CockroachDB platform—spanning developer experiences, operations, security, and emerging capabilities. You'll collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, and other writers to produce <a href="https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/">public documentation</a> and craft clear, helpful copy across product interfaces.</p> <p>Beyond user assistance, you'll contribute insights on improving the product, evolving our processes, and collaborating across departments. Our team is committed to staying ahead of the curve—innovating with AI to analyze content, ensure quality, and eliminate toil, freeing writers to focus on what they do best: producing the most effective content for our customers.</p> <p><strong>This role is hybrid, requiring three days per week in either our New York City or San Francisco office.</strong></p> <h2><strong>You Will</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Translate complex, highly technical concepts into clear, actionable documentation for engineers, operators, and technical decision-makers.</li> <li>Develop in-depth product knowledge and collaborate with engineering and product teams to ensure documentation aligns with user workflows and company priorities.</li> <li>Write comprehensive content across multiple formats—tutorials, how-to guides, conceptual overviews, reference documentation—and contribute to copy for release notes, UIs, APIs, and CLIs.</li> <li>Cover topics that may include developer workflows, schema design and migration, deployment automation and scaling, cluster performance and operational best practices, backups and disaster recovery, monitoring and observability, authentication and authorization, network security, vector search and AI workloads, data governance, and more.</li> <li>Benefit from a balanced work distribution, gaining experience across diverse areas of the product while reserving time for deep dives into larger projects within specific product domains.</li> <li>Get to know a variety of user workflows and priorities—from developers building applications to operators maintaining critical workloads for high-scale, globally distributed systems.</li> <li>Collaborate with dedicated documentation infrastructure engineers who ... (truncated, view full listing at source)