[Remote] Technical Writer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Camunda is the enterprise platform for agentic orchestration, enabling organizations to coordinate AI agents, people, and systems across complex business processes. As a Technical Writer, you will take ownership of documentation for key areas of the platform, collaborating with product teams to ensure clarity and accuracy in documentation that enhances the developer experience.
Responsibilities
- Own and drive the documentation for one or more product areas, acting as the embedded technical writer within the corresponding product teams
- Work closely with engineers, product managers, and designers to stay deeply informed about the product roadmap and ensure documentation is accurate, timely, and aligned with feature development
- Become a subject matter expert in your assigned product areas, developing hands-on experience with Camunda products to create documentation that reflects real-world usage and developer needs
- Lead documentation efforts from concept through to release, including planning, writing, reviewing, and maintaining content that empowers developers to succeed with Camunda technologies
- Advocate for documentation as a critical part of the user experience, bringing the user’s perspective into product discussions and influencing design and implementation where appropriate
- Continuously improve the structure, clarity, and completeness of the documentation based on analytics, user feedback, and your own insights
- Collaborate with other writers and the broader Documentation team to share best practices, contribute to team goals, and evolve our documentation tooling and standards
- Help maintain and improve our documentation site's technical infrastructure, including build tooling, deployment pipelines, and Docusaurus platform configuration, to keep publishing fast, reliable, and scalable
Skills
- 3+ years of technical writing experience and a strong portfolio of developer-focused content such as user guides, installation guides, API references, tutorials, and technical blog posts
- Hands-on experience with Java, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, and related technologies, and a proven ability to deeply understand, use, and test complex technical products (ideally with Camunda 8 or similar products)
- Experience with writing about on-premise software installation or other technical environments, as well as SaaS and software documentation
- Proven ability to tailor content for diverse audiences and technical backgrounds, including software engineers, application developers, business analysts, and process owners
- Experience with docs-as-code workflows and documentation frameworks such as Docusaurus, and using AI, Git, and Markdown in a developer-centric environment
- Ability and/or willingness to use our product
- Experience maintaining, configuring, and extending documentation site infrastructure and deployment pipelines, preferably using Docusaurus
- Software engineering experience, or proficiency with one or more programming languages
- Comfortable iterating on an existing technical writing style guide and advocating for its cross-functional use
Benefits
- Work from anywhere with the setup that suits you
- Home office budget
- Co-working space support
- Flexible time off to recharge when you need it
- Annual Kickoff (Vienna in 2025, Madrid in 2026!)
- Team offsites
- Camundi Connection Budgets
- Including contributing to meetups while travelling
- Local gatherings with fellow Camundi
- Access locally tailored healthcare
- Modern Health for global mental wellbeing
- Live Well Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA)
- The Live Well program launches in 2026 and scales to €1,000 annually from 2027.
- Retirement and pension plans (often with company contributions)
- Life and disability insurance where relevant
- Up to $/€/£1,000 per year for self-driven learning: courses, certifications, books, you decide!
- Health & Wellbeing locally tailored healthcare
- Professional Growth: Up to $/€/£1,000 per year for self-driven learning: courses, certifications, books, you decide!
- Equity: We also offer equity (where applicable) through our Virtual Stock Option Plan (VSOP)
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