NetApp

Technical Writer

NetApp$95K — $115K *
Technical Services
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in technical writing or related fields.
  • Proven success in leading complex documentation initiatives.
  • Experience with AI-assisted content development and improvement.
  • Ability to influence technical stakeholders effectively across teams.
  • Expertise in structured authoring and content strategy.
  • Familiarity with enterprise hardware and software documentation.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and technical curiosity.

Responsibilities

  • Develop clear and effective technical documentation for enterprise solutions.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure technical accuracy.
  • Implement content standards and AI workflows to enhance documentation processes.
  • Deepen understanding of complex technologies through research and expert collaboration.
  • Lead documentation initiatives and mentor team members to improve quality.

Benefits

  • Access to continuing education and professional development opportunities.
  • Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies in a supportive environment.
  • Collaborative culture that values curiosity and continuous learning.
  • Potential for leadership and mentoring roles within the team.
Full Job Description
Job Summary

As members of NetApp's Information Engineering organization, we transform product knowledge into trusted enterprise assets that power customer experiences, AI assistants, search systems, support workflows, and future agentic experiences. We are looking for a skilled technical writer who is curious, collaborative, and energized by learning complex technologies while helping customers succeed. The ideal candidate creates high-quality technical content and builds strong partnerships across engineering, product, and support teams. They are committed to making technical information more accurate, consistent, and easier to use.

Job Requirements

What You'll Do
    • Develop technical documentation that is accurate, complete, and easy to use for enterprise hardware and software solutions, including installation, configuration, administration, maintenance, and upgrade procedures.
    • Partner closely with engineering, product management, support, and UX teams to gather information, ensure technical accuracy, and create documentation that reflects product capabilities and customer needs.
    • Refine and implement content standards and AI-enabled workflows that improve how technical information is created, reviewed, maintained, and delivered for customers, support teams, search systems, and AI assistants.
    • Cultivate a deep understanding of complex technologies, customer workflows, and emerging documentation practices through research, collaboration with subject matter experts, and continuous learning to ensure technical information remains accurate, relevant, and useful.
    • Lead documentation initiatives from planning through delivery, mentor writers and content contributors, and improve documentation quality, consistency, and team practices.


What Skills You'll Need
    • Minimum of 8 years of experience in technical writing, content strategy, knowledge management, information architecture, or a related field.
    • Demonstrated success leading complex documentation, content strategy, or information architecture initiatives.
    • Experience developing standards and processes that improve content quality, consistency, and support AI-assisted experiences.
    • Demonstrated ability to influence technical stakeholders and drive improvements across teams.
    • Expertise in technical communication, structured authoring, and content strategy.
    • Experience creating and maintaining technical documentation for complex enterprise hardware and software solutions.
    • Strong understanding of how to organize, structure, and maintain information so it is easy for customers, support teams, and AI systems to find and use.
    • Experience using AI-assisted tools to create, review, validate, and manage technical information while maintaining accuracy and quality.
    • Ability to assess documentation quality and identify opportunities to improve clarity, usability, and effectiveness.
    • Strong leadership, collaboration, mentoring, and stakeholder influence skills, with the ability to lead complex documentation initiatives across multiple teams.
    • Strong problem-solving skills, technical curiosity, and the ability to quickly learn new technologies.


Preferred Experience
    • Enterprise infrastructure technologies, including storage, networking, cloud, data management, or related platforms.
    • Hardware and software documentation supporting deployment, administration, troubleshooting, maintenance, and lifecycle management.
    • Structured content strategy, content modeling, information architecture, taxonomy, or metadata management.
    • Search optimization, content discoverability, or AI-assisted content development.
    • GitHub, docs-as-code workflows, source control systems, and lightweight markup languages such as AsciiDoc or Markdown.


Education

  • Bachelor's degree in Technical Communication, English, Computer Science, Information Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

About NetApp

NetApp is a global cloud-led, data-centric software company that empowers organizations to lead with data in the age of accelerated digital transformation. The company provides systems, software and cloud services that enable them to run their applications optimally from data center to cloud, whether they are developing in the cloud, moving to the cloud, or creating their own cloud-like experiences on premises. With solutions that perform across diverse environments, NetApp helps organizations build their own data fabric and securely deliver the right data, services and applications to the right people?anytime, anywhere. Learn more at www.netapp.com.
Learn more about NetApp
Size
12,000 employees
Market Cap
$12.7 billion
Industry
Net Income
$592 million
Founded
1992
5 Year Trend
+2.8%
Revenue
$5.5 billion
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