Senior Technical Author - Cybersecurity API Docs Lead

Darktrace Holdings; Cambridge; Híbrido; GBP 65.000 - 90.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Darktrace Holdings is seeking a Senior Technical Author to create and maintain high-quality technical materials for customers, partners and the Darktrace community. You will author content hands-on, review work, and mentor others while promoting industry best practices in content design and information architecture.

The role is primarily an individual contributor position with potential to lead a small team, and is a hybrid role requiring two days per week in the Cambridge office.

Formación

• 5+ years creating technical documentation for software or hardware.
• Experience reviewing large established content sets.
• Track record of raising content quality in teams.
• Experience mentoring authors.
• Experience introducing authoring practices to improve docs.
• Strong information architecture and user-centered design.
• Hands-on with Markdown, HTML, version control (Git).
• Experience documenting APIs or developer-focused tech.
• Excellent written communication across diverse audiences.

Responsabilidades

• Research, write, and maintain high-quality technical documentation across products and audiences.
• Review and evolve existing content to improve quality, consistency, usability, and structure.
• Drive improvements to content structure, navigation, and information architecture.
• Apply technical communication standards and best practices to content.
• Mentor colleagues and raise documentation standards across the team.
• Support API and developer-focused docs where required.
• Collaborate with engineering and SMEs to keep docs accurate and aligned with product.

Conocimientos

Technical writing

Documentation

Mentoring

API docs

Information architecture

Git

Markdown

Swagger/OpenAPI

Herramientas

Markdown

HTML

Git

Swagger

REST APIs

Descripción del empleo

Darktrace Holdings is seeking a Senior Technical Author to create and maintain high-quality technical materials for customers, partners and the Darktrace community. You will author content hands-on, review work, and mentor others while promoting industry best practices in content design and information architecture.

The role is primarily an individual contributor position with potential to lead a small team, and is a hybrid role requiring two days per week in the Cambridge office.