Senior Technical Writer

Make an Impact. Drive Clarity. Empower Developers.

Are you passionate about creating developer-focused documentation that makes complex technology simple? Join us as a Senior Technical Writer and take the lead in reimagining content for Coverity, our cutting-edge static analysis security testing tool. This is your chance to influence documentation strategy, improve user experience, and collaborate with world-class engineers to deliver content that matter.

• Own the documentation lifecycle for Coverity—from planning and writing to publishing and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with developers, product managers, and UX teams to translate technical concepts into clear, actionable content.
• Drive best practices for DITA-based documentation and contribute to content architecture and strategy.
• Advocate for the user experience, ensuring documentation is intuitive, accurate, and customer-focused.
• Lead and mentor other writers, guiding small team initiatives and cross-functional projects.

• 5 years as a technical writer.
• Experience with at least one programming language.
• Comfortable in the command line; Bash scripting is a plus.
• Familiarity with Git/GitLab or similar source control tools.
• Strong experience with DITA: creating ditamaps, tasks, concepts, and reference topics; using keys and ditaval for conditional processing.
• Advanced knowledge of DITA best practices, content strategy, and CCMS systems is highly desirable.

• Proven ability to lead a small team of writers.
• Experience with Atlassian JIRA and Confluence.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies.
• Experience with SaaS-based integrated product documentation and help pages.
• Ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical users.
• Keen attention to detail and excellent communication skills.
• Experience with API documentation and testing examples using tools like Postman or cURL.
• Developer-facing documentation experience (SDKs, CLI tools).
• Docs-as-code workflows (Git, GitHub pull requests, OAS3 specs).
• Familiarity with application security software.