Technical Writer – PostgreSQL

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⏰ Full Time

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🔏 Technical Writer

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Percona

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2006

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Logistics • Marketing

Percona is an open source database software, support, and services company that helps enhance the performance and reliability of databases and applications. The company provides a variety of tools and services tailored for MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL databases, offering managed services, consulting, and training to support enterprises in managing their complex database environments. Percona is recognized for its commitment to open source solutions, ensuring that clients maintain control and secure access to their data without being locked into commercial licenses. Their solutions focus on scalability, proactive performance tuning, high availability, and security, serving thousands of customers with varied database needs. With a strong emphasis on community engagement and continuous innovation, Percona is dedicated to driving success and efficiency in database management.

📋 Description

• Create technical documentation including installation, configuration, troubleshooting, and how-to guides, user manuals, man pages, and --help prompts • Participate in team ceremonies • Collaborate with the Engineering Manager, Product Manager, developers, and QA to produce high-quality documentation • Use text, Markdown, images, and diagrams to make documentation valuable for audiences of all experience levels • Leverage AI tooling to draft, polish, format, and refine content • Maintain documentation versioning • Contribute to the overall documentation strategy • Work on PostgreSQL and related components within a distributed open-source software development team • Represent Percona's voice to technical customers • Develop complete, clear documentation for Percona PostgreSQL products • Communicate and collaborate through Slack, Zoom, Jira, forums, and team rituals • Write documentation for new features, guides, bug fixes, and release notes • Participate in technical discussions and planning sessions • Draft blog posts and contribute to upstream documentation • Research and learn new technologies • Occasionally attend conferences or in-person meetups

🎯 Requirements

• Graduate-level written English and excellent verbal communication skills • Experience documenting complex systems and writing user-oriented documentation • 3+ years of experience as a technical writer • Ability to write high-quality and precise documentation • Experience with markup languages, preferably Markdown • Experience installing and configuring database server software on Linux • Docs-as-code experience • Knowledge of Jenkins, Git, Markdown, HTML, and/or JavaScript strongly recommended • Experience leveraging AI tooling for documentation purposes • Comfortable with the Linux command line • Distributed system development and/or database server development experience • Fluency with developer tools such as Git, GCC, and GDB • Ability to work autonomously in a globally distributed organization • Experience collaborating with open source communities and colleagues via mailing lists, Slack, and similar tools • Experience using collaboration/tracking tools such as Jira and Notion • Proven success working in a distributed environment • Quick learner and great team player • A developer or DevOps background is a differentiator • Track record contributing to PostgreSQL or other open source projects is a differentiator • Active PostgreSQL community membership is a differentiator • Solid understanding of PostgreSQL internals is a differentiator • Working knowledge of database storage engines, at-rest encryption, and cloud orchestration is a differentiator • Ability to build and maintain automated documentation testing, CI/CD pipelines, and validation tools is a differentiator • Conference speaking, technical blogging, and public forum or mailing-list activity are differentiators

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work hours • Various paid time off programs • All equipment for your remote office • Funds for career development, including external training, certifications, and conferences • Ongoing connectivity allowances • Opportunity to participate in the equity incentive plan • The Percona Adventure Team • Work-from-Anywhere • FlowDays • FryDays • Overall work flexibility • Fridays designated as no-meeting days for focused work and professional growth • Opportunities for conferences or in-person meetups