Documentation Engineer

Modal, Inc

$110K — $130K *
Technical Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years in engineering, product, or developer relations roles in devtools or infrastructure
  • Proficient in authoring/editing high-quality technical content for developers
  • Familiarity with agentic engineering workflows and best practices
  • Comfortable with modern software development practices (version control, CI/CD, testing)

Responsibilities

  • Think holistically about content architecture to evolve documentation as new products and features are introduced
  • Innovate new documentation formats and delivery channels to enhance agent productivity
  • Develop content standards, style guides, and automated enforcement for consistency and quality
  • Build and maintain automated pipelines to ensure correctness in code examples and prose
  • Collaborate with engineers to create clear, consistent, and accurate documentation

Benefits

  • Work in a collaborative environment with product teams
  • Opportunity to innovate and shape documentation standards
  • Influence the developer experience through high-quality documentation
  • Engage with cutting-edge technologies in a supportive team
Full Job Description
The Role:

Modal considers high-quality documentation to be essential for developer experience, and we see docs becoming even more important as agents increasingly deploy and operate Modal Apps. We are looking for a content-minded engineer who will partner with our product teams to curate Modal's technical documentation and maintain a high quality bar across multiple dimensions.

Responsibilities:
  • Thinking holistically about content architecture and how the docs should evolve as Modal introduces new products and features
  • Innovating on novel documentation formats and delivery channels to optimize agent productivity, in collaboration with our Agent DX research team
  • Developing content standards, style guides, and automated enforcement mechanisms to ensure consistent style and high quality
  • Building and maintaining automated pipelines that will enforce the correctness of code examples and prose descriptions
  • Collaborating with engineers across the company to author documentation that is clear, consistent, and correct


Requirements:
  • 3+ years of experience in an engineering, product, or developer relations role, ideally in the devtools or infrastructure space
  • Experience authoring and/or editing high-quality technical content for developers
  • Knowledge of agentic engineering workflows and best practices
  • Comfort with modern software development practices (version control, CI/CD, testing)

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