Senior Technical Writer

Worldwide

Full Time

Engineering

Traefik Labs is a VC-backed company that develops simple and future-proof cloud-native networking solutions for modern IT environments. The company’s popular open-source projects include Traefik Proxy, the cloud-native application proxy with more than 3.2 billion downloads and used by the world’s largest web companies. Traefik Labs’ mission is to help organizations adopt and scale cloud native architectures.

We believe that simpler is better, that Open Source is superior, and community drives innovation!

The Position

Our documentation must reflect the high-quality standards we follow when building our solutions. Pursuing this goal, we’re looking for a senior technical writer to help us create the best user experience for both beginners discovering our products and experts looking for advanced configuration options.

Your Mission

Design and write documentation for our products
Work with the engineering team to make the products easier to use and to ensure usability stays at the heart of the design
Select appropriate medium for message or audience
Standardize content across platforms and media
Leverage users’ feedback to improve the documentation
Write and review technical articles, blog posts, and talks

What you’ll bring

You have proven, successful experience in writing large piece of technical documentation for popular software
A passion for teaching and explaining high-level and technical concepts

You have writing experience with one or more of the following

Kubernetes, Containers, and cloud-native environments
Ingress, Gateway API, API Gateways, API Management
Distributed architectures
DevOps, GitOps, CI/CD pipelines
Observability
Security, including authorization and authentication mechanisms
Networking (layer 4 & layer 7)

This position calls for the following qualities

A powerful team spirit: we believe that the quality of our team is the number one asset of the Company
Extreme ownership and focus on meeting goals: we are fast-growing, but this is just the beginning; we are an industry leader that prides on stellar execution
Ability to think as a user, documenting how to solve their problems
A creative mind who loves to share: while accomplishing goals requires focus, we do not work in silos; innovating and sharing matter to us
Anything from serious interest to a definite passion for Open Source
You are fluent in English and can adapt the language to an international audience