Technical Writer

As a Technical Writer at Camunda, you'll be embedded within product teams, taking full ownership of documentation for key areas of our platform. You'll work side-by-side with engineers, product managers, and designers to ensure our documentation is clear, accurate, and closely aligned with the product experience. This is a hands-on role where you'll become a subject matter expert, directly shaping the developer journey through high-impact content across the Camunda platform. Beyond content, you'll help maintain and configure the infrastructure that keeps our documentation running smoothly. You'll join a collaborative, mission-driven team focused on helping developers become productive with Camunda technologies quickly and joyfully. Developers with technical writing experience are encouraged to apply. What You’ll Be Doing: - 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. What You Bring: - 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 Nice-to-haves: - 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.