Opportunity overview
What you should know
We checked this opportunity from Percona. It is listed as Worldwide.
The work location is Remote — worldwide. Employer-stated compensation: Salary not included in the job posting.
Job description
About this role
You will represent our voice to our technical customers and provide complete, clear documentation for our PostgresSQL products. We seek someone committed to delivering consistent, high-quality, and on-time documentation, whether in the form of guides, user manuals, help files, or man pages. You should be comfortable working in version-controlled environments, as we adopt a docs-as-code methodology. You will be embedded in the PostgreSQL team, but also working alongside the Product Documentation team, which comprises several technical writers dedicated to developing a scalable documentation strategy that drives user adoption and effective use of our products.
Responsibilities
- Create all technical documentation from install/configuration/troubleshooting guides, how-tos, user manuals, man pages, to --help prompts
- Participate in team ceremonies. Collaborate with the Engineering Manager, Product Manager, Devs, and QA to output high-quality documentation
- Use text, markdown, images, and diagrams to ensure that audiences of all experience levels can extract value from our documentation
- Leverage AI tooling to quickly draft, polish, format, and refine content
- Maintain documentation versioning and be a contributor to our overall documentation strategy
Qualifications and requirements
- Graduate-level written English and excellent verbal communication skills
- Experience with documenting complex systems and writing user-oriented documentation
- 3+ years of experience as a technical writer and ability to write high-quality and precise documentation
- Experience with markup languages (Markdown preferred)
- Experience with the installation and configuration of database server software on Linux
- Docs-as-code experience. Knowledge of Jenkins, git, Markdown, HTML, and/or JavaScript (strongly recommended)
- Experience in leveraging AI tooling for documentation purposes
- Comfortable with Linux command line
- Distributed system development and/or database server development
- Fluent in developer tools like git, gcc, gdb
- Working autonomously in a globally distributed organization
- Collaborating with open source communities and colleagues via mailing lists, Slack, etc.
- Using collaboration/tracking tools like Jira/Notion
- Proven success working in a distributed environment
- Quick learner and great team player
- What will (really) make you stand out
- A developer or DevOps background
- Having a track record of contributing to PostgreSQL or other open source projects. Being an active member of the PostgreSQL community
- A solid understanding of PostgreSQL internals to write accurate content to potentially contribute upstream
- A solid working knowledge of advanced concepts such as database storage engines, at-rest encryption, and cloud orchestration
- Ability to build and maintain automated documentation testing, CI/CD pipelines for documentation process, and validation tools
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How this listing was checked
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- Employer or source
- Percona
- Source checked
- September 7, 2026
- Application destination
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- Work setup and location
- Remote · Remote — worldwide
- Who can apply
- Worldwide · Confirmed by source
- Pay
- Not stated by employer
- Deadline
- Not stated by employer
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