Senior Technical Content Editor - Developer Programs

Requirements:

• 5+ years of engineering experience, proficiency in at least one programming language, and a drive to continue learning the latest technology trends.
• Experience writing and editing articles, with an ability to quickly diagnose whether a piece is accurate, well articulated, and developer-friendly. Fluent English is required.
• Excellent editorial judgment and strong time-management skills to run reviews across multiple content streams.
• Experience working autonomously and self-organizing.
• Curiosity and adaptability to quickly become an expert on new tools and topics, with an overall love of learning.
• Comfortable working with a highly distributed team and collaborating with many counterparts across time zones.

Nice to Haves:

• Existing Elasticsearch expertise.
• Experience with writing documentation.
• A strong social media presence (connected to relevant audiences).

What You'll Be Doing:

• Write and build high-quality content—tutorials, deep dives, Labs articles, demos, and video explainers on elastic.co or our YouTube channel.
• Technical content reviews across all formats: blogs, YouTube scripts and videos, short-form social posts, and more.
• Help ensure that Elastic shows up in all spaces in an authentic, developer-first way.
• Validate correctness and clarify explanations in partnership with engineers and PMs across search, observability, security, and GenAI.
• Guide writers, video creators, and contributors toward the desired level of detail and narrative structure.
• Brainstorm and weigh in on emerging content strategies, especially on hot industry topics and the best storytelling angle.
• Surface recurring questions or themes from various developer forums that should influence future content plans.
• Strengthen our presence on Reddit and HackerNews, and help the team develop relevant, tonally appropriate promotion strategies.

Perks and Benefits:

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary.
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations.
• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
• Generous number of vacation days each year.
• Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service.
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love.
• Embracing parenthood with a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.