Lead Technical Writer, Remote

Over 720 employees work across sales, engineering, consulting and the SOC. Annual revenue from managed services has grown every year since 1992. Background checks are required, and some client work requires a government clearance.

Role overview:

Everard Secure has an opening for a Lead Technical Writer, Remote. We're looking for a writer who can read code well enough to document an API and still write plainly for end users. You can work from home anywhere in the US. We have no office requirement. You can set your own hours around a daily morning check-in. Please make sure you have a quiet place to work and a solid internet connection.

What you'll do:

• Create diagrams and annotated screenshots with Snagit, draw or Figma
• Build and maintain a style guide and templates
• Edit documentation written by engineers for clarity and consistency
• Document REST APIs from OpenAPI specs and verify examples against a test environment
• Track documentation work in Jira alongside engineering tickets
• Produce release notes for each product release
• Maintain docs-as-code workflows in Markdown, Git and static site generators like Docusaurus or MkDocs

Minimum qualifications:

• 8-10 years of technical writing experience in software, hardware or a regulated industry
• Writing samples showing technical documentation for different audiences
• Bachelor's degree in English, communications, a technical field or equivalent experience
• Familiarity with REST APIs, JSON and tools like Postman or curl
• Strong grasp of grammar, structure and plain-language writing
• Comfortable chasing busy engineers for answers

Preferred:

• Video tutorials in Camtasia
• Knowledge of the Microsoft Writing Style Guide or Google developer documentation style guide
• Setting up a docs site from scratch
• Information architecture or UX writing

Pay range: $131,000 to $176,000 annually. Final offer will depend on experience.

Compensation and benefits:

• Health insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid sick leave
• Health, dental and vision coverage starting on day one

Everard Secure provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Everard Secure LLC.