Technical Content Writer
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Job Location:
New York City, NY - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
The Team:
Our Technical Content Writing team is the public voice of Datadog. We are a group oftech-oriented writers and editors who create technically accurate and compelling content for ahighly technical audience of software developers ops engineers and other end main blog (a.k.a. The Monitor) covers Datadog in depth and provides valuableinformation to the broader tech community around observability best practices and industrytrends.
At Datadog we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds the creativity itbrings to the table and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace toensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.
What Youll Do:
- Research write and pitch articles for the Datadog blog such as:
- Deep dives on modern technologies
- In-depth monitoring guides and tutorials
- Announcements for new Datadog features and integrations
- Collaborate with editors product managers engineers and graphic designers tomaximize the clarity technical correctness and visual appeal of our articles
- Develop new formats for communicating original research monitoring best practicesand technical tips to our readers
- Continually measure reader engagement and iterate to improve content focus craft anddistribution
Who You Are:
- A polished technical writer with samples of your work to share
- An experienced professional with 2-4 years experience as a technology writer; and/or aCS degree; or a relevant advanced degree; or equivalent work experience writing ontechnical topics e.g. cloud technologies monitoring and observability
- Proficient in at least one widely used general-purpose programming language (PythonGo Java Ruby etc.)
- Experienced with modern application development and monitoring concepts includingmicroservices CI/CD distributed tracing agentic AI and code profiling
- Comfortable researching new technologies able to learn how to use them and able toreduce their complex workings to clear prose. You will have the support of Datadogengineers and other technical staff when you need an expert opinionDatadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all theabove qualifications on day one. Thats okay. If youre passionate about technology and want togrow your skills we encourage you to apply.
Benefits and Growth:
- Generous and competitive benefits
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
- Continuous career development and pathing opportunities
- Internal mentor and buddy program cross-departmentally
- Friendly and inclusive workplace culture
Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and thenature of your employment with Datadog.
To conform to US export control regulations candidates should be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government. This job is available in various departments within our company; to conform to US export control regulations some of these roles may require candidates to be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government.
Key Skills
- Content Management Systems
- Enterprise Software
- HR Sourcing
- Information Architecture
- Technical Writing
- User Research
- Adobe Captivate
- Copywriting
- Figma
- Content Strategy
- Taxonomy
- Writing Skills
