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Job summary
The AWS Documentation team is looking for a senior technical writer to help grow the AWS Glue and Lake Formation documentation team. Glue is a serverless data-preparation service for extract, transform, and load (ETL) operations. Lake Formation is a service that makes it easy to set up data lakes. Your documentation will help customers create ETL jobs to make it easy for them to query and analyze their data.
Ideally, you have a technical background that enables easy interaction with software developers and a demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality technical documentation. Any experience you have with web services, Linux, XML, and GIT is also a bonus. While we don't expect you to be an expert in these areas, we hope you are excited to learn about them.
This position is open to candidates for the Palo Alto and Seattle locations, and remote candidates on the US west coast. Candidates at other work locations may also be considered.
As a technical writer supporting AWS Glue and Lake Formation, you'll create in-depth documentation on product features and API reference materials. You'll also continuously improve existing documentation, based on customer feedback. You'll work directly with the AWS Glue development team in a cross-functional, distributed environment. This position requires a technical background, allowing you to work effectively with software development engineers, and product managers. In addition, you'll need excellent communication skills, and a demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality technical publications.
AWS is constantly moving and that can be one of the best parts about this job! You will always be learning and growing. But our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren't focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we're happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life-both in and outside of work.
The AWS Documentation team writes and provides support for a diverse audience consisting of developers, DevOps professionals, IT professionals, technical program managers, and scientists. We have both the technical background and the writing background that enable our team to deliver high-quality technical documentation. On behalf of our customers, we do much more than just write the docs. We innovate, we research, we learn, and we experiment. We collaborate with product managers to understand our customers' needs. We partner with software developers to learn the inner workings of AWS services so that we can influence design and the customer experience. We know that what we do makes a difference in the successful adoption and implementation of AWS services.
We have a formal mentor search application that lets you find a mentor that works best for you, based on factors such as location, job family, and job level. Your manager can also help you find a mentor or two. In addition to formal mentors, we work and train together so that we are always learning from one another, and we celebrate and support the career progression of our team members.
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon's culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.
AWS has the most services, and more features within those services, than any other cloud provider-from infrastructure technologies like compute, storage, and databases-to emerging technologies, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, data lakes and analytics, and Internet of Things. Whether it's identity features, such as access management and sign on, cryptography, console, builder & developer tools, and even projects like automating our contractual billing systems, AWS Platform is always innovating with the customer in mind. The AWS Platform team sustains over 750 million transactions per second.
Key job responsibilities
· Drive documentation planning with engineering teams.
· Independently follow designs and standards to develop and deliver documentation for AWS products.
· Work as part of a team to produce conceptual, how-to, and API reference documentation for AWS products.
· Help define writing projects and determine priorities.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
· A minimum of 3 years as a technical writer in a relevant field
· Experience designing and delivering developer documentation, including task-based and API documentation
· A degree in computer science, or a related field highly desirable
· Experience working with a programming language, such as Python, Java, Scala, Node.js etc.
· Experience working directly with development teams
· Experience with XML-based authoring systems
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
· Experience with web services and related technologies
· Experience working with big data, data science, or analytics products and platforms
· Experience with distributed computing products, such as Spark, Hadoop, Presto, HBase, or Hive
· Experience working in an agile programming environment
· Experience with source control systems
· Strong written and verbal communication skills
· Strong attention to detail
· Strong interpersonal skills
· Passion to thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment
· A proactive and open-minded attitude toward resolving problems and delivering results
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Job summary
The AWS Documentation team is looking for a senior technical writer to help grow the AWS Glue and Lake Formation documentation team. Glue is a serverless data-preparation service for extract, transform, and load (ETL) operations. Lake Formation is a service that makes it easy to set up data lakes. Your documentation will help customers create ETL jobs to make it easy for them to query and analyze their data.
Ideally, you have a technical background that enables easy interaction with software developers and a demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality technical documentation. Any experience you have with web services, Linux, XML, and GIT is also a bonus. While we don't expect you to be an expert in these areas, we hope you are excited to learn about them.
This position is open to candidates for the Palo Alto and Seattle locations, and remote candidates on the US west coast. Candidates at other work locations may also be considered.
As a technical writer supporting AWS Glue and Lake Formation, you'll create in-depth documentation on product features and API reference materials. You'll also continuously improve existing documentation, based on customer feedback. You'll work directly with the AWS Glue development team in a cross-functional, distributed environment. This position requires a technical background, allowing you to work effectively with software development engineers, and product managers. In addition, you'll need excellent communication skills, and a demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality technical publications.
AWS is constantly moving and that can be one of the best parts about this job! You will always be learning and growing. But our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren't focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we're happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life-both in and outside of work.
The AWS Documentation team writes and provides support for a diverse audience consisting of developers, DevOps professionals, IT professionals, technical program managers, and scientists. We have both the technical background and the writing background that enable our team to deliver high-quality technical documentation. On behalf of our customers, we do much more than just write the docs. We innovate, we research, we learn, and we experiment. We collaborate with product managers to understand our customers' needs. We partner with software developers to learn the inner workings of AWS services so that we can influence design and the customer experience. We know that what we do makes a difference in the successful adoption and implementation of AWS services.
We have a formal mentor search application that lets you find a mentor that works best for you, based on factors such as location, job family, and job level. Your manager can also help you find a mentor or two. In addition to formal mentors, we work and train together so that we are always learning from one another, and we celebrate and support the career progression of our team members.
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon's culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.
AWS has the most services, and more features within those services, than any other cloud provider-from infrastructure technologies like compute, storage, and databases-to emerging technologies, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, data lakes and analytics, and Internet of Things. Whether it's identity features, such as access management and sign on, cryptography, console, builder & developer tools, and even projects like automating our contractual billing systems, AWS Platform is always innovating with the customer in mind. The AWS Platform team sustains over 750 million transactions per second.
Key job responsibilities
· Drive documentation planning with engineering teams.
· Independently follow designs and standards to develop and deliver documentation for AWS products.
· Work as part of a team to produce conceptual, how-to, and API reference documentation for AWS products.
· Help define writing projects and determine priorities.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
· A minimum of 3 years as a technical writer in a relevant field
· Experience designing and delivering developer documentation, including task-based and API documentation
· A degree in computer science, or a related field highly desirable
· Experience working with a programming language, such as Python, Java, Scala, Node.js etc.
· Experience working directly with development teams
· Experience with XML-based authoring systems
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
· Experience with web services and related technologies
· Experience working with big data, data science, or analytics products and platforms
· Experience with distributed computing products, such as Spark, Hadoop, Presto, HBase, or Hive
· Experience working in an agile programming environment
· Experience with source control systems
· Strong written and verbal communication skills
· Strong attention to detail
· Strong interpersonal skills
· Passion to thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment
· A proactive and open-minded attitude toward resolving problems and delivering results
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.