Remote Documentation Manager for APIs & SDKs

Rozgoo; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

New hire stock equity (RSUs)

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Continuous professional development

Mentor and buddy program

Inclusive company culture

Inclusion Talks

Global mental health benefits

Competitive global benefits

Job summary

Datadog is seeking a Documentation Manager to lead a small team of technical writers and deliver high-quality public docs for our APIs, SDKs, and developer tools. You will work closely with product and engineering to ensure accurate, actionable content and maintain documentation standards.

You will read multiple programming languages, contribute to docs-as-code, and help scale documentation across cloud infrastructure monitoring platforms.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years researching and developing technical docs for topics like databases, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and monitoring.
• 2–5 years managing a small team of technical writers with coaching and project planning responsibilities.
• Publicly available technical writing samples required.
• Familiarity with reading multiple programming languages and documentation as code.

Responsibilities

• Manage 3–5 direct reports and oversee day-to-day writing workflows and content plans.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to maintain public documentation for users and developers.
• Interview SMEs and review source code to research technical details for docs.
• Collaborate with the Documentation team to improve standards and processes.

Skills

Technical writing

Team management

Cross-functional collaboration

Documentation as code

Tools

Git

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Datadog is seeking a Documentation Manager to lead a small team of technical writers and deliver high-quality public docs for our APIs, SDKs, and developer tools. You will work closely with product and engineering to ensure accurate, actionable content and maintain documentation standards.

You will read multiple programming languages, contribute to docs-as-code, and help scale documentation across cloud infrastructure monitoring platforms.