[Hiring] Director of Technical Documentation @Pulumicorporation

We are looking for a passionate Director of Technical Documentation to educate Pulumi’s rapidly growing community on infrastructure as code best practices and how best to maximize use of the Pulumi platform to achieve success in building modern cloud infrastructure. You will be a part of realizing a vision where every engineer can program the cloud.

In this role, you will play a vital role in getting our customers up and running quickly and making sure that they are able to scale and standardize their use of our products. You have both a demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality technical publications, and a technical background that enables you to work cross-functionally with software engineers, product managers, and technical pre- and post-sales teams. You will be leading Pulumi’s documentation efforts, and coordinating all documentation across our open source and commercial product lines.

At Pulumi you will be challenged, learn, teach, and collaborate with an elite team of great people.

While Pulumi is headquartered in Seattle, WA., we are dedicated to being a remote first company. This role can be located remotely in the United States or EMEA area. 

• Produce high quality documentation, including code samples, for our API, website, sales collateral and open source communication.
• Create the technical curriculum (e.g., tutorials, getting started) to get customers from a 100 to 400 level. 
• Edit, clarify, and proofread documentation written by others, and help non-writers improve their skills.
• Develop and implement a voice that will be used across Pulumi documentation.
• Collaborate with engineering, product management, marketing, and sales to prioritize, develop, and deliver product documentation.
• Manage a team of technical writers and engineers 

This role spans our entire open source platform, across many clouds (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Kubernetes), supporting any number of industry standard languages (JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Go, etc,), and scenarios (containers, serverless, and infrastructure). We can safely guarantee that you will always be learning something new!

• 3+ years in a software development environment.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent a plus.
• Experience building and managing a team
• Demonstrable experience with technical writing for cloud and/or devops products, preferably in a start-up environment.
• Familiarity with the content and voice needed to engage with the Open Source developer community.
• Experience in one or more of the following technologies a plus:
• Languages: Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, or C#.
• Cloud Platforms: Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform.

• Base Salary Hiring Range - Director Level: $180,500 - $220,000
• All full time employee offers at Pulumi include base salary, bonus or variable, equity and benefits (details below).