At MinIO I'm exploring building docs from scratch, by far one of the most challenging and rewarding experiences I've ever had. I have no interest in leaving the position at this time. Check out https://www.writethedocs.org/job-board/ instead!I think it's reductive to simply describe a Technical Writer using merely the title itself. There's far more than just writing going on, far more than just technical competency.The Technical Writer is a skilled QA engineer, an alpha and beta tester comfortable being elbows deep in your software stack building out a comprehensive understanding of what your users will experience. They are customer and community support in their ability to read, assist with, and close out technical issues and discussions. They are pre- and post-sales in creating and crafting any number of documents required during the RFP process. They are training and education, able to pinch-hit and build out written and recorded content for opening your product up to a wider audience.It's more than merely translating requirement documents or existing specs. It's critically reading from the eyes of your users, grouped across personas each of which have their own unique set of needs and outcomes. It's a position where being jack of all trades and master of none is actually the ideal - it means sitting in comfort in changing environments, unflinching as the product and industry seas churn and shift. For my part, I specialize in documenting complex server-side distributed software suites. In direct experience this is primarily databases and object storage, but extends by virtue of the field to security softwares, network firewalls, webservers, server hardware, architecture, and data processing (distributed query, AI/ML).I do most of my writing in rich markup languages, RST (Sphinx) primarily with some Markdown (Hugo) in the mix. I'm comfortable reading code but am not much of a programmer myself. Python and Go are so far my comfort spaces, but I can wrangle with Java, Rust, and a few others without too much fuss.
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