Staff Technical Writer

Be Part of Building the Future

Dremio is The Easy and Open Data Lakehouse, providing self-service analytics with data warehouse functionality and data lake flexibility across all of your data. Dremio increases agility with a revolutionary data-as-code approach that adopts Git concepts to enable data experimentation, version control, and governance. In addition, Dremio breaks down data silos by simplifying ingestion into the lakehouse, and also allowing queries directly on databases and data warehouses. All of this is available through a fully managed service that not only eliminates the need to maintain infrastructure and software, but also automatically optimizes the data in the lakehouse to maximize performance for every workload.

Founded in 2015, Dremio is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA. Investors include Cisco Investments, Insight Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, and Sapphire Ventures. For more information, visit www.dremio.com. Connect with Dremio on GitHub, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.

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About the role

As a member of the Technical Documentation team, you will create and manage technical content that enables customers to run Dremio's On-Premises and SaaS solutions. You will have ownership over key documentation projects in Dremio's long-term product roadmap. You should be customer-focused and enjoy working with subject matter experts in various roles. You should be an expert builder who is comfortable working in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, and have a roll-up-your-sleeves, entrepreneurial spirit. To succeed in this role, you should have a technical background in data engineering, data science, and/or business analytics.

What you’ll be doing

• Research, write, and maintain high-quality technical content (SQL commands and functions, API docs, user guide content).
• Work closely with subject matter experts around Dremio to ensure the quality, accuracy, and discoverability of the content you create.
• Quickly learn and use Dremio's products to ensure you can design and write content that is accurate and relevant to the user.
• Work with product managers, engineers, and support teams to ensure that all aspects of the Dremio solution are well-documented and easy to find.
• Respond to internal requests to improve and evolve our documentation, sometimes on short notice.
• Assist in designing and implementing improvements to the architecture and strategies of the documentation team (content management, content reuse, search and discoverability, etc.).
• Help define processes for writing documentation (SQL reference, API reference, user guides, overviews, troubleshooting, etc.) within product and engineering teams.
• Work with users outside of the documentation team to encourage contributions to our documentation.
• Contribute to and promote high-quality documentation standards and practices.
• Must be able to work independently without direction, and review all considerations and to determine how and when work is completed.
• Think and plan at the program-level planning, managing all considerations, as you will be involved in broad, organizational, cross-functional initiative planning.

What we’re looking for

• 12+ years of relevant experience in technical writing, product documentation, or online publishing (writing samples required).
• You are passionate about instructional writing, with a focus on clarity, straightforward storytellin