Senior Technical Writer

konghq.com; New York (NY); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Kong Inc. is seeking a technical writer to own the documentation strategy across product areas, collaborating with product and field teams to identify gaps and drive clear, actionable content.

You will write how-to guides, references, and overview pages, testing content with APIs and command‑line tools to ensure accuracy and consistency. You will maintain and update published docs, improve version control workflows in Git, and help plan docs work to ship on schedule in a fast-paced software

Qualifications

• Worked on a docs team with engineers and other writers.
• Experience as a technical writer in a software company or startup.
• Experience with AI-native workflows and MCP servers.
• Understanding of testing software, APIs and command line tools.
• Comfortable with the command line and Git version control.
• Experience maintaining docs in a docs-as-code environment.

Responsibilities

• Own the documentation strategy for your product area and plan work.
• Collaborate with product and field teams to identify docs gaps and bring data.
• Contribute to product discussions to align docs with strategy.
• Write and edit how-to guides, reference docs, landing pages and overviews.
• Test and verify documentation with real use and APIs to ensure accuracy.
• Maintain and update existing docs, and plan deprecation where needed.

Skills

Docs teamwork

Startup/software experience

AI workflows

APIs testing

Command line

Git

Tools

Git

Job description

Are you ready to unlock intelligence?

ABOUT THE ROLE

Our docs get used in a few different ways. Some people land on a page in the middle of a task and just need the answer. Others are working out how to run Kong across a whole company, with real traffic and a lot of teams. The docs also power agent workflows, ours and our customers', like MCP servers and AI assistants. So when a page is wrong, it's wrong everywhere.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Own your product area

• Own the documentation strategy for your area. That means getting into the product, seeing what's about to ship, deciding what needs writing, and planning the work. Share that plan with the docs team so everyone knows what's in motion. If something looks off, we'll sort it out together.
• Work with product and field teams to find where a docs gap is blocking someone, and bring the data: user behavior, field feedback, adoption numbers. Who asked loudest shouldn't decide what gets written.
• Sit in on product management discussions and say what you're seeing, so the docs and the product strategy stay in step.

Write it and test it

• Write and edit how-to guides, reference documentation, and the pages that point people where they need to go, like landing pages and overviews.
• Test everything you write. You're usually the first person outside engineering to use a new feature, so run the software, talk to the experts, and use the command line and API testing tools. If the steps don't work, the page isn't finished.
• Review docs for technical accuracy and make sure they follow our guidelines.

Keep it all current

• Maintain what's already published. Update it, revise it, and deprecate what's out of date.
• Improve how we do docs, including document management and version control in Git, and help plan docs work so it ships on schedule.

WHAT YOU BRING

Must have

• You've worked alongside other technical writers on a docs team, not just with engineers or a manager, and you're comfortable giving and getting reviews
• You've worked as a technical writer at a software company or a startup
• Experience working with AI and AI-native workflows (building skills using MCP servers)
• An understanding of how to test software, including APIs and command line tools, and hands-on experience doing it
• Comfort working in the command line, and solid Git experience
• Experience maintaining, managing, and reviewing docs in a docs-as-code environment

About Kong:

Kong Inc., the AI Connectivity Company, is building the connectivity layer of AI. Trusted by the Fortune 500® and AI-native startups alike, Kong’s unified API and AI platform enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI traffic — on any model, any cloud. For more information, visit www.konghq.com http://www.konghq.com.