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Senior Technical Writer
Spectro Cloud
Marketing & Communications, IT
United States
USD 100k-160k / year
Posted on Aug 19, 2025
Documentation and education · US · Fully Remote
Senior Technical Writer
Are you stuck in endless meetings instead of working on exciting technologies? Do you enjoy creating real-world example applications to help others learn? Join us and start making a difference with us
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Who We Are
Spectro Cloud aims to make infrastructure boundaryless for the enterprise, from data center to edge and every platform in between. We provide solutions that help enterprises run applications on Kubernetes, their way, anywhere.
Established by a team of multi-cloud management experts and industry veterans with a track record of success, we're at the forefront of multi-cloud management solutions. What makes us stand out is our team's commitment and strong backing from industry-leading investors, driving our progress. Our collective focus is on delivering unmatched value that resonates with our customers, and you can take pride in being involved with it.
About the Job
The Spectro Cloud Documentation & Education team is looking for a Senior Technical Writer to join our experienced team of technical writers and education engineers. We are looking for someone with a strong technical background to contribute to our documentation and provide the best user experience with Palette, our Kubernetes management platform.
As a Technical Writer, you will focus on creating user-friendly content that meets our customers’ needs and concerns. In your day-to-day, you will work closely with developers, engineers, and other technical staff to understand and document the technology and software that we build at Spectro Cloud. You will create reference material, diagrams, and how-tos for our practitioners to help them gain a deeper understanding of the product. We believe in team and individual ownership, so you will work alongside other team members to build expertise in a product area.
We are a technical product, and as a result, we are looking for individuals who are comfortable with developer workflows and using the same tools as developers: git, Kubernetes, command line interfaces, GitHub, containers, Docker, cloud providers, and Terraform.
Due to federal data access requirements tied to specific responsibilities, only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role.
The Team
The Documentation & Education team works closely with the Product, Engineering, and Support teams to ensure we provide accurate and complete feature documentation that serves our customers' real needs. Senior Technical Writers leverage their extensive technical and writing skills to educate prospective customers by creating clear, concise documentation representative of their workflows and concerns.
Location: This is a full-time position open to the USA.
Salary range: $100,000-$160,000 OTE (DOE).
Job Responsibilities
- Create clear, in-depth how-to guides and feature documentation that helps users understand and use product features, leveraging real-world scenarios, customer use cases, and product workflows.
- Conduct hands-on testing, experimentation, and independent research to gain deep, first-hand product knowledge. Identify and document edge cases, limitations, and feature updates to ensure technical accuracy and completeness.
- Collaborate closely with product managers, developers, engineers, QA, and UX to gather and validate technical information, clarify complex functionality, and stay aligned with evolving product roadmaps.
- Author technical blogs, release notes, and long-form content that explain product innovations and industry trends, supporting Spectro Cloud’s developer engagement.
- Champion user-first documentation practices by advocating for accessible, inclusive, and task-oriented content
- Define and maintain content standards, templates, and voice/tone guidelines to ensure consistency across documentation.
- Mentor and support junior or mid-level technical writers, providing feedback on their work, sharing best practices, and helping them develop their technical and editorial skills, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous learning.
- Refactor and enhance documentation information architecture to improve content organization, navigation, and discoverability across the Docs site.
- Take ownership of high-impact documentation projects end-to-end, including planning, coordination, writing, and review.
Required Qualifications
We don’t expect the ideal candidate to check every box, but the items below are things we look for when reviewing candidates. Do not let this discourage you from applying.
- U.S. citizenship
- Excellent communication skills
- A self-starter with the ability to dive into technical features by themselves and create documentation
- Experience in analyzing information architecture and restructuring content
- 4+ years of experience as a technical writer
- Experience with Docs-as-Code processes
- Able to coach and mentor other technical writers
- Comfortable writing in Markdown
- Comfortable using developer tools such as git, CLIs, Docker, and GitHub
- Familiar with containers and Kubernetes
- Comfortable working in a remote setting and with a remote-first culture
- Experience with infrastructure providers (AWS, Azure, GCP, VMware)
- Comfortable creating diagrams and visual resources to help the learning process
- Displays a passion for learning and exploring new technologies
Additional Preferred Qualifications
- Cloud certifications such as the AWS Certified Solutions Architect or equivalent
- Experience with AI tools and workflows
The Hiring Process
Your time is valuable, so we want to ensure we respect your time and the effort you put into the hiring process. The interview process is divided into four sections: a screening interview, a technical interview, a writing and information architecture discussion, and a culture and team fit interview.
- Screening Interview - this is a 30-minute interview where we verify if we are a good fit for each other. We’ll be asking questions to learn more about your career experience and your technical educator skills.
- Technical Interview - a 60-minute interview where we verify your technical teaching capability, writing skills, and technical knowledge. We use a writing assignment to validate your teaching and writing capabilities. The writing assignment is not a pass or fail but instead utilized as an indicator to help us understand your current abilities.
- Writing & Information Architecture - a 45-minute interview where we review your understanding of composing, writing, and structuring information.
- Culture/Team Interview - this is another 45-minute interview. The questions here focus on your experience working in a team setting. Other questions check for organizational core values and culture fit.
- Q&A with Product - this is a 30-minute information chat with one of our PMs. This stage is an excellent opportunity to ask questions about the team, the product and Spectro Cloud as a whole.
Job Requisition Number: 2025-094
- Department
- Documentation and education
- Locations
- US
- Remote status
- Fully Remote
US
Our Culture
Spectro Cloud is a fun, fast-paced place to work where you can make a big impact, every day. We recruit the best from all over the world, and we show up in all our diversity to collaborate and build something we’re all proud of. We’re passionate about innovation and helping our customers, and we’re ambitious about changing the industry. If you’re bored or frustrated by rigid corporate life, this is an opportunity to grow your skills, push boundaries and change the world.
About Spectro Cloud
Founded in 2019
Co-workers 220+
Documentation and education · US · Fully Remote