Snowflake Computing

Senior Technical Writer

Snowflake Computing$120K — $160K *
Technical Services
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years creating technical product documentation from specifications and from scratch.
  • Strong SQL and RDBMS skills, familiar with platforms like Oracle, Teradata, and SQL Server.
  • Experience with security and governance technologies like SSO, OAuth, and data masking.
  • Deep understanding of the content development lifecycle, including audience needs and information gathering.
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Responsibilities

  • Create online guides, reference docs, and tutorials for technical users.
  • Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and designers for accurate feature documentation.
  • Coordinate with release engineers to provide timely product updates and documentation.
  • Assist support and success teams in improving customer engagement and adoption.
  • Develop various training materials, including implementation and migration guides.

Benefits

  • Diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
  • Opportunities for professional growth and skill development.
  • Dynamic and fast-paced work environment.
  • Collaborative culture focused on innovation.
  • Impactful contributions with direct results on customer satisfaction.
Full Job Description
Where Data Does More. Join the Snowflake team.

Snowflake is growing fast and we're scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We're passionate about our people, our customers, our values and our culture! We're also looking for people with a growth mindset and the pragmatic insight to solve for today while building for the future. And as a Snowflake employee, you will be accountable for supporting and enabling diversity and belonging.

Snowflake started with a clear vision: make modern data warehousing effective, affordable, and accessible to all data users. Because traditional on-premises and cloud solutions struggle with this, Snowflake developed an innovative product with a new built-for-the-cloud architecture that combines the power of data warehousing, the flexibility of big data platforms, and the elasticity of the cloud at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions. Over the last few years, Snowflake has added additional products and features to its portfolio (from data pipelines, cross-region / cloud features to data exchanges) to become the leading Data Cloud.

Snowflake technical writers work with a world-class team to create product documentation for Snowflake's industry-leading Data Cloud. Working in a fast-paced and challenging environment, you experience the immediate and direct impact of your contributions as Snowflake delivers weekly releases to our rapidly growing base of global customers.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
  • Create online guides, reference docs, and tutorials for technical audiences (SQL engineers, application developers, etc).
  • Engage directly with product managers, software engineers, and UI designers to ensure all features, enhancements, and changes are fully documented.
  • Work with release engineers and dev ops to deliver weekly product updates and documentation.
  • Work with support engineers and customer success managers to help drive customer engagement and adoption, which may include:
    • Contributing to Knowledge Base articles and Community questions.
    • Authoring and editing technical blog posts.
    • Developing training materials, implementation guides, migration guides, best practices, and FAQs.


REQUIRED SKILLS/ EXPERIENCE:
  • 10+ years creating technical product documentation from scratch, as well as from specs.
  • Strong SQL and RDBMS skills (Oracle, Teradata, Redshift, SQL Server, etc); comfortable working with sample code.
  • Exposure to using and documenting any of the following security and governance technologies:
    • Identity and Access Management (SSO, OAuth, MFA, RBAC, SCIM, etc)
    • Networking and Private Connectivity (AWS PrivateLink, Azure Private Link, Google Cloud Private Service Connect)
    • Governance (data masking/tokenization for column-level security, row-level security, data classification and anonymization, etc)
    • Additional topics (data encryption, auditing, compliance and regulatory standards)
  • In-depth knowledge of the content development lifecycle, including:
    • Identifying and understanding the information needs of the audience.
    • Gathering information, interviewing SMEs, and conducting research.
    • Authoring, publishing, and managing online/web content.


ADDITIONAL DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
  • Familiarity with:
    • ETL/ELT and BI technologies.
    • Cloud computing platforms (AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP, etc).
    • Programming languages/APIs (Python, JavaScript, Java, Go, C#/.NET, etc).
    • Big Data analytics, machine learning, and statistics (Spark, Scala, R, etc).
    • Database drivers/connectors (JDBC, ODBC, etc).
  • Exposure to:
    • CI/CD methodologies and technologies (Jenkins, Lambda, etc).
    • Open-source platforms and authoring/publishing tools for a "Docs-as-Code" approach (Git, RST/Sphinx, Markdown, DITA XML, etc).


Snowflake is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, gender identity or expression, marital status, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, race, religion, pregnancy, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

Snowflake is growing fast, and we're scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.

How do you want to make your impact?

For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com

About Snowflake Computing

Snowflake is a cloud-based data-warehousing company that was founded in 2012. The company provides a data platform that allows customers to store and analyze data using cloud-based infrastructure. Snowflake's platform is designed to be highly scalable and flexible, allowing customers to easily add or remove computing resources as needed. The company's customers include a wide range of businesses, from startups to Fortune 500 companies. Snowflake has received significant funding from investors and has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing companies in the United States.
Learn more about Snowflake Computing
Size
2,037 employees
Market Cap
$44.9 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$539.1 million
Founded
2012
Revenue
$592 million
NASDAQ

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