Technical Writer

Runtime; United States; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

35 days holiday

Private Healthcare

Private Dental & Vision

Remote Working

Flexi-Time

Extended Paternity / Maternity Leave

Home-Office Set-Up Allowance

Job summary

Runtime is hiring a Technical Writer to join their documentation team. You’ll own documentation for specific product areas, working directly with engineers to understand features before they ship and write guides for a developer audience.

You’ll review contributions, manage the product changelog, and partner with product, customer success and sales to improve docs. Remote-friendly across the UK & Ireland with a fast-growing environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical writing, ideally for software developers.
• Comfortable with docs-as-code, Markdown, HTML and git-based workflows.
• Working familiarity with package managers, registries or DevOps tooling (npm, Docker, Maven, Terraform or similar).
• Clear, precise communicator who keeps asking engineers 'why' until it clicks.

Responsibilities

• Own documentation for specific product areas, working with engineers to understand features before they ship.
• Write guides and best-practice content for a developer audience.
• Review and publish contributions from others, and manage the product changelog.
• Partner with product, customer success and sales to spot where docs fall short and fix them.
• Prioritise your own content backlog: what's now, next and later.

Skills

Technical writing

Content strategy

Clear communication

Developer audience

Tools

Markdown

HTML

Git

npm

Docker

Maven

Terraform

Job description

Benefits: 35 days holiday, Private Healthcare, Private Dental & Vision, Remote Working, Flexi-Time, Extended Paternity / Maternity Leave, Home-Office Set-Up Allowance

Runtime is partnering with a VC-backed DevSecOps company to hire a Technical Writer into their documentation team.

Their platform sits at the heart of how enterprise engineering teams build and secure software, and their documentation is one of the main reasons customers choose them. This hire is about keeping that bar high as they scale.

What you'll be doing

• Owning documentation for specific product areas, working directly with engineers to understand features before they ship
• Writing guides and best-practice content for a developer audience
• Reviewing and publishing contributions from others, and managing the product changelog
• Partnering with product, customer success and sales to spot where docs fall short and fix them
• Prioritising your own content backlog: what's now, next and later

What they're looking for

• 5+ years of technical writing, ideally for software developers
• Comfortable with docs-as-code, Markdown, HTML and git-based workflows
• Working familiarity with package managers, registries or DevOps tooling (npm, Docker, Maven, Terraform or similar)
• Clear, precise communicator who keeps asking engineers "why" until it clicks

Why it's worth a look

• Remote-friendly across the UK & Ireland
• Well-funded, fast-growing business on a strong growth trajectory
• Small, high-calibre team where docs are treated as part of the product, not an afterthought