Senior Technical Writer

Make an Impact. Drive Clarity. Empower Developers.

Are you passionate about creatingdeveloper-focused documentation that makes complex technology simple Join us as a Senior Technical Writer and take the lead in reimagining content for Coverity our cutting-edge static analysis security testing tool. This is your chance to influence documentation strategy improve user experience and collaborate with world-class engineers to deliver content that matter.

• Own the documentation lifecycle for Coverityfrom planning and writing to publishing and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with developers product managers and UX teams to translate technical concepts into clear actionable content.
• Drive best practices for DITA-based documentation and contribute to content architecture and strategy.
• Advocate for the user experience ensuring documentation is intuitive accurate and customer-focused.
• Lead and mentor other writers guiding small team initiatives and cross-functional projects.

Key Qualifications:

• 5 years as a technical writer.
• Experience with at least one programming language.
• Comfortable in the command line; Bash scripting is a plus.
• Familiarity with Git/GitLab or similar source control tools.
• Strong experience with DITA: creating ditamaps tasks concepts and reference topics; using keys and ditaval for conditional processing.
• Advanced knowledge of DITA best practices content strategy and CCMS systems is highly desirable.

What We Value:

• Proven ability to lead a small team of writers.
• Experience with Atlassian JIRA and Confluence.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies.
• Experience with SaaS-based integrated product documentation and help pages.
• Ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical users.
• Keen attention to detail and excellent communication skills.
• Experience with API documentation and testing examples using tools like Postman or cURL.
• Developer-facing documentation experience (SDKs CLI tools).
• Docs-as-code workflows (Git GitHub pull requests OAS3 specs).
• Familiarity with application security software.

Pay Range

$74400 - $111600 CAD