Developer Documentation Writer

🔥 28 minutes ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $195k - $239k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔏 Technical Writer

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Posted on Render's careers page, not through a job board

First seen by Remote Rocketship 28 minutes ago

Still open on Render's site. Checked 20 minutes ago.

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Render

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2018

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

☁️ SaaS

Consulting • Logistics • SaaS

Render is a modern cloud platform for developers and teams that simplifies the process of building, deploying, and scaling applications. It offers a range of services including web services, static sites, cron jobs, background workers, PostgreSQL databases, and Redis management. Render's platform is designed for ease of use with features such as automatic deployments, load-based autoscaling, and infrastructure as code. It also provides robust security measures like DDoS protection and data privacy compliance. Render caters to a wide range of development stacks with support for various programming languages and Docker images, providing developers with a seamless environment to manage and scale their infrastructure. With a focus on speed, reliability, and collaboration, Render helps developers efficiently manage their applications and infrastructure from development to production.

📋 Description

• Own documentation for a defined area of the Render platform • Support minor version updates and major launches while keeping existing content fresh • Deliver conceptual guides, API/SDK/CLI reference, agent skills, changelog entries, and customer communications • Build and deploy example applications on Render to validate platform behavior • Review documentation contributions from internal contributors and provide feedback and guidance • Work closely with Product, Engineering, Design, and other teams to explain evolving Render products

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience crafting genuinely useful documentation for developers • Pithy, expressive writing • Judicious, proactive application of AI to assess accuracy, reduce toil, and strengthen content • Familiarity with multi-service architectures, including execution boundaries, independent deployments, and data persistence • Comfort working with Git and the command line • Kindness, grace, and empathy in all forms of communication • Experience with hosting, infrastructure, or DevOps products (nice-to-have) • Experience authoring and maintaining AI skills (nice-to-have) • Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States • Generally not eligible for new visa sponsorship; existing visa transfers may be sponsored at Render's discretion with business authorization

🏖️ Benefits

• 4 weeks of paid vacation • 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents • Long-term disability insurance • Life insurance • 401K plans • 100% employer-paid medical coverage • 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage for you and a dependent • FSAs and HSAs available • Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health and therapy, hobbies, etc. • Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy • Commuter benefits for Renders in the Bay Area • Home office stipends for remote Renders • Continuous learning benefits and related support • Equity offered

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