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Technical Writer Senior
Technical Writer Senior-March 2024
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Mar 28, 2026
About Technical Writer Senior

  Do you love solving complex problems?

  Would you enjoy improving our customers' experience?

  Join our Technical Writing team

  Our Technical Writing team is responsible for creating content. This assists both users and developers working with Akamai products. Writers specialize in UI text, in-product user assistance, product documentation, and API/Developer materials.

  Help us deliver best-in-class documentation

  As a Senior Technical Writer, you'll join an already-established writing team focused on creating customer-facing content. You'll collaborate with a cross-functional team to develop high-quality content to enhance our customer experience. You'll create both reference and task-based content that enables and supports Akamai's customers.

  As a Technical Writer Senior, you will be responsible for:

  Working with product managers and engineers to create & maintain technical documentation and application content for Akamai customers

  Driving documentation projects through the complete development cycle

  Learning and mastering Akamai's documentation tools, methods, and delivery mechanisms as the work requires

  Creating UI text and in-app guidance to help customers navigate through Akamai products

  Developing comprehensive reference documentation for developer tools like APIs, CLIs, and SDKs

  Understanding user goals and working with cross-functional teams to scope the user experience deliverables

  Do what you love

  To be successful in this role you will:

  Have a Bachelor's Degree in Technical Writing, Computer Science, or another related field or its equivalent

  Possess excellent communication and writing skills in English

  Have writing samples demonstrating your excellence in writing UI text, product documentation, and API references

  Have experience documenting TCP/UDP/IP network applications

  Have a solid understanding of Markdown and GIT

  Have solid understanding of IP protocols such as TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, TLS

  Have analytical skills to process complex technical information and the desire to learn new skills

  Be able to proactively suggest not only edits but interaction design changes that would improve user experience

  Work in a way that works for you

  FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world. When our colleagues said that flexible working was important to them, we listened. We also know flexible working is important to many of the incredible people considering joining Akamai. FlexBase, gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised). This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply.

  Learn (https://www.akamai.com/careers) what makes Akamai a great place to work

  Connect with us on social and see what life at Akamai is like!

  We power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges, together.

  At Akamai, we're curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you'll thrive here.

  Working for you

  At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:

  Your health

  Your finances

  Your family

  Your time at work

  Your time pursuing other endeavors

  Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.

  About us

  Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world's most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.

  Join us

  Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company with a global reach and exciting services and clients? Come join us and grow with a team of people who will energize and inspire you!

  #LI-Remote

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