Amazon Glue Senior Technical Writer, Service Docs -DBAS, Database_DBAS

$96,900 - $195,800/Yr

Amazon - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Mid Level

Seattle, WA

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About the position

The Amazon Glue Senior Technical Writer will be responsible for creating and maintaining technical documentation for Amazon Glue, a serverless data integration service. This role requires a blend of technical writing and programming skills to produce high-quality content that enhances customer experience. The successful candidate will work closely with various stakeholders to ensure documentation is accurate, discoverable, and user-friendly, while also mentoring junior team members and driving initiatives to improve documentation processes.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain technical content for Amazon Glue customers that is accurate, discoverable, and well-organized.
• Work with metrics and stakeholders to make improvements to Amazon Glue documentation and UX to continually improve customer experience.
• Develop scripts, sample code, and technical procedures that are easy to use.
• Produce multi-service code examples that reflect common customer journey and usage patterns.
• Develop and formalize working relationships and processes to ensure code examples in guides are up to date, run as expected, and have unit tests.
• Develop and lead initiatives on the Code Examples team to improve code example delivery and publication mechanisms.
• Provide thorough and insightful peer code reviews.
• Mentor junior team members in team tools and processes, and provide guidance in how to create and publish code examples.
• Implement efficiencies that increase team output.
• Anticipate customer needs and be the 'first customer'.
• Dive deep to become a subject-matter expert in your area of ownership.
• Impact product CX, UX design, roadmap priorities, and engineering team goals.

Requirements

• Degree or certification in a relevant technical field or equivalent experience.
• A minimum of 5 years in a technical writing or programming role with high-quality written work artifacts.
• Proven experience designing and delivering developer-oriented documentation.
• Experience with or understanding of cloud computing, including cloud storage technologies.
• Experience with open-source libraries.
• Experience with API documentation.
• Experience working directly with software engineering and development teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Passion for learning new tools, programming languages, and techniques.
• Passion to thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment.
• A proactive and open-minded attitude to resolving problems and delivering results.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience designing, planning, and delivering content solutions that meet the needs of technical business customers.
• Experience with XML-based publishing systems and working with XML, markdown, and HTML.
• Familiarity with using and following a style guide.

Benefits

• Competitive salary based on market location and experience.
• Equity and sign-on payments may be provided as part of the total compensation package.
• Full range of medical, financial, and other benefits.