Technical Writer: DevSecOps Platform Documentation

Cloudsmith; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pre-IPO equity

Private healthcare

Flexible annual leave

Professional development budget

Regular team travel

Job summary

Cloudsmith, based in Belfast, seeks a Technical Writer to join the documentation team and scale our platform documentation under the guidance of the Senior Technical Writer.

You will own documentation for specific product areas, working with product and engineering before features ship, and collaborate with customer success and sales to improve existing docs. This role emphasizes clear, precise technical communication and strong developer-focused content.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical writing experience for software developers.
• Proficient in HTML and Markdown.
• Comfortable with docs-as-code and git-based workflows.
• Familiarity with package management, artifact registries, or DevOps toolchains (npm, Docker, Maven, Terraform).
• Clear, precise technical communication.

Responsibilities

• Write documentation for new products and features in collaboration with engineers.
• Create guides and best-practice content for customers and users.
• Develop multimedia assets (screenshots, short-form video) for docs.

Skills

Technical writing

HTML

Markdown

Docs as code

Git

Collaborative work

Tools

Git

Markdown

HTML

Job description

Cloudsmith, based in Belfast, seeks a Technical Writer to join the documentation team and scale our platform documentation under the guidance of the Senior Technical Writer.

You will own documentation for specific product areas, working with product and engineering before features ship, and collaborate with customer success and sales to improve existing docs. This role emphasizes clear, precise technical communication and strong developer-focused content.