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About the RoleThe Uber Technical Writing team plays a critical role in increasing internal engineering productivity and innovation.As a Senior Technical Writer, you will use your writing expertise, technical skills, and learner's attitude to make it easy for Uber engineers to understand and use the cutting edge tech stack that powers over 16 million Uber trips daily. You will partner with engineers, technical writers, program managers, and data scientists to identify the most pressing pain points and help engineering writing partners build most important internal technical documentation. Dedicated to excellence, you will experiment and creatively find ways to help engineers learn about technologies like API gateways, configuration systems, and machine learning, which will help scale the way we deliver best-in-class engineering globally.What the Candidate Will Do:
- Work closely with engineers to produce high-quality technical documentation that engineers trust
- Improve existing onboarding processes with documentation, helping engineers get up to speed quickly
- Take initiative to improve the developer experience by testing tools and services, investigating problems, and channeling feedback into high-quality, impactful documentation
- Accurately prioritize documentation, from the layout of content on a page to finding its accurate place in the entire documentation taxonomy, with search optimization in mind
- Define standards and guidelines that help other writers and engineers
- Influence and motivate partners to adopt your documentation vision
- A minimum of 4 years of experience writing and organizing developer-facing documentation and other forms of technical content
- Proven ability to quickly learn about technical concepts and write accurate, concise content
- Experience writing for the web, software, hardware, or cloud technologies
- Proven ability to independently propose, plan, and deliver documentation solutions to developer problems
- Experience mentoring writers or engineers to improve their writing skills
- Experience writing about large-scale web services, data platforms, or developer ecosystems (knowledge of the various pieces of interacting technologies behind platforms)
- Experience crafting API documentation or code examples
- Experience with Confluence and statically generated HTML/CSS/JS content
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