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.

- 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.

- 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.

- 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.