Content Marketing Writer

Root; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Flexible hours

Open atmosphere

Job summary

Root is seeking an experienced content writer with a cloud security background to translate security industry concepts into clear, accessible content for developers and security professionals. You’ll work with marketing, product, and design to produce blogs, guides, tutorials, and whitepapers, ensuring technical accuracy and engaging narratives.

You will write for an audience of cloud security engineers, DevSecOps leads, and CISOs, and contribute to the education academy and product

Qualifications

• Strong English writing skills and ability to translate security terminology for a broad audience.
• Experience writing blogs, guides, tutorials, and whitepapers.
• Understanding of cloud security and related technologies.

Responsibilities

• Create high-quality, original content for cloud security engineers, DevSecOps leads, and CISOs.
• Collaborate with marketing, product, and design to ensure technical accuracy and compelling visuals.
• Optimize content for SEO and maintain consistent tone and structure across materials.

Skills

Content writing

Technical writing

Cloud security

SEO

Job description

We’re making security suck less for developers.

Security tools haven’t kept up with how software is built today. They interrupt teams, slow releases, and turn security into a bottleneck instead of a capability. We built Aikido to change that. Aikido builds developer‑first security products that reduce real risk without getting in the way of shipping software. We focus on what actually matters and automate the rest.

We’re taking on legacy security tools teams have been stuck with, and we’re winning. If you want to help us take market share and build products developers actually enjoy using, you’re in the right place.

Founded in 2022 by third‑time founders, Aikido has $85M in the bank and a long runway ahead. We’re building toward self‑securing software. Join an all‑star team. Take real ownership. Push boundaries. Build things that matter.

So we are looking for you, an experienced content writer with a cloud security background. You'll translate security industry slang and acronyms into understandable language.

You will work closely together with our marketing, product & dev team to make sure you deeply understand the tech & product. Then, you’ll use that knowledge to write valuable content for our users (blogs, guides, tutorials, articles,...).

Our mission is to simplify software security for busy developers. In that sense, we're at the forefront of an "accessible" security industry, and so the work you do will be seen and felt by a huge number of people.

Responsibilities

• Primarily focus on writing high-quality, original, and engaging content for cloud sec engineers/devsecops leads/CISOs. This will be for our academy, which means educational pieces about the industry (Think security checklists, explainers, comparison pieces, guides,...), whitepapers, web pages, etc...

• You'll work closely with our content team and in-house SEO expert to prioritize tasks.

• Work closely with our designers to make sure all content has great visuals that enhance the reader's experience.

• Work with our editor to ensure the copy meets our language, structure, and tone of voice.

• Continuously optimize our online content for SEO performance.

• You have a technical understanding of cloud security & can understand our technology & products. You should be able to discuss this on a technical level.

• You have great writing skills & are experienced in writing blogs, articles, tutorials, docs, how-to guides, etc.

• You know SEO and understand what works.

• Exceptional grammar, research, fact‑checking, writing, and editing skills.

• You are comfortable in a very entrepreneurial environment.

• Plus: experience with AppSec or other dev tooling

• Fluent in English - native level.

What you can expect

• Short decision lines. Big ownership. Shape the projects that matter and ship fast.

• Grow as fast as we do. Take on more, own more, and carve out your own path.

• Top-tier tech pay and equity.

• High trust, strong values, zero corporate BS.

• Flexibility in working hours.

• A company that sticks to its values in an open and informal atmosphere.

We hire for talent, drive, and potential. Everything else is noise.