Technical Writer — DevSecOps Documentation Expert

MMC; Belfast City District; Remote; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pre-IPO equity

Private healthcare

Generous annual leave

Professional development budget

Team travel

Job summary

Cloudsmith is seeking a Technical Writer to bolster our documentation team as we scale. You will own documenting product areas, working with product and engineering to understand features before they ship, and collaborating with customer success and sales to improve documentation quality.

Reporting to our Senior Technical Writer, you’ll ensure docs are ready when features ship, and you’ll help shape the developer-facing documentation across packages, artifact management, and software supply

Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical writing experience for software developers.
• Proficient in HTML and Markdown.
• Comfortable with "docs as code" and git-based version control workflows.
• Working familiarity with package management, artifact registries, or DevOps toolchains (npm, Docker, Maven, Terraform, or similar)
• Clear, precise technical communicator.
• Curious, motivated to learn quickly, comfortable asking engineers "why" until you actually understand a feature.

Responsibilities

• Documentation creation & content development: Write documentation for new products and features; write guides and best-practice content; create multimedia assets.
• Editorial & publishing: Review, edit, and publish contributions; manage and publish changelog.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Partner with product managers; work with customer success and sales to improve docs; align with partners.
• Ownership & product knowledge: Prioritize backlog of content improvements; be an informed user of Cloudsmith products and integrations.

Skills

Technical writing

HTML & Markdown

Docs as code

DevOps toolchains

Clear communication

Curious learner

Tools

Git

Docker

Terraform

Maven

Job description

Cloudsmith is seeking a Technical Writer to bolster our documentation team as we scale. You will own documenting product areas, working with product and engineering to understand features before they ship, and collaborating with customer success and sales to improve documentation quality.

Reporting to our Senior Technical Writer, you’ll ensure docs are ready when features ship, and you’ll help shape the developer-facing documentation across packages, artifact management, and software supply