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Senior Technical Writer
Great Expectations - Cottonwood Heights, UT
posted 3 days ago
About the position
Great Expectations' mission is to revolutionize the speed and integrity of data collaboration. Our SaaS data quality platform, GX Cloud, provides end-to-end support for building trust in your data. It's powered by GX Core, our open source Python library and one of the most widely-used data quality solutions in the world. GX Core leverages extensive data quality experience from a large and vibrant community with over 11,000 members and hundreds of open source contributors. Data teams all over the world rely on Great Expectations to instrument and understand their data. GX Cloud builds on that trust and community to succeed in our mission.
Responsibilities
- Create and uphold a high standard of developer experience within our documentation
- Work with Product, Engineering, and Developer Relations, to ensure timely, thorough, and accurate documentation of both new and existing product features
- Help drive a use-case-based information-architecture approach to organizing content
- Help us continually improve our authoring and production tools and processes
- Write robust technical documentation such as task-based how-to's, end-to-end tutorials, integration guides, and conceptual guides
- Curate clear API references by consulting on the formatting, toolchain, and process
- Revise docstrings for clarity based on user feedback
- Create functional code examples to include in our documentation, in collaboration with Developer Relations and Engineering
- Maintain consistency of style, tone, and voice across a growing body of technical content
- Develop style guides for others to maintain consistency
- Engage in regular review and editing of documentation based on metrics and feedback.
Requirements
- A solid writing background, including 5+ years as a technical writer for a highly technical SaaS product
- The ability to clearly and concisely convey technical information to data engineers and data analysts
- Strong familiarity with 'Docs-as-Code' approach
- Strong familiarity with Python and SQL
- A passion for cultivating a positive developer experience
Nice-to-haves
- Previous experience documenting SaaS products with an open-source core component
- Direct experience with data work in Python, SQL, Spark, etc.
- Previous experience working in data engineering, including knowledge of current data engineering tools and trends
- Data in your blood. The more curiosity you have about a wide variety of data from all walks of life, the better.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation (base salary + equity package)
- Medical, dental, vision insurances
- 401(k) with 5% employer match
- A world-class team with deep roots in open source and data development
- A fast-growing company with lots of opportunity for learning and personal growth
- A front-row seat to the rapid evolution of data science and engineering
- A kind, curious, and open-minded company culture
- A distributed team with lots of flexibility around timing and individual work preferences
