Senior Technical Content Editor
Datadog
- New York City, NY
- $132,000-169,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Work closely with technical content writers to develop and provide deep editorial feedback on articles for the Datadog blog, such as:
- Deep dives on modern technologies
- In-depth monitoring guides and tutorials
- Announcements about the Datadog product
- Provide subject matter expertise in one or more areas related to Datadog and modern application development, observability, and security
- Collaborate with editors, writers, product managers, engineers, and graphic designers to maximize the clarity, technical correctness, and visual appeal of our articles
- Mentor writers and other editors to help them develop their skills and confidence in conceiving and developing new content
- Help identify and create new formats and content types to better communicate original research, monitoring best practices, and technical tips to our readers
- Continually measure reader engagement, and iterate to improve content focus, craft, and distribution
- Actively assesses team processes and workflows to identify improvements
- You have a minimum of 5 years experience as an editor and/or writer in the technology industry, with samples of your work to share
- You are able to craft superior, technically precise prose and elevate the work of your colleagues to a similar level. This includes improving the quality of the writing itself, as well as identifying technical passages that need clarification, revision, or deeper exploration
- You are up to date on the latest trends in the cloud monitoring space and are constantly coming up with and pitching new story ideas
- You are familiar with modern web application development methods, container platforms, cloud services, and other infrastructure technologies
- The opportunity to grow our team and continue to foster a positive culture within a fast-growing company
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
- Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
- An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
- Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions
- Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+