Technical Writer, Cloud Functions, Serverless - Toronto, Canada - Google

Google

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Toronto, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, or equivalent practical experience.
4 years of experience creating content for technical audiences (e.g., developer documentation, Computer Science course material, or IT administration playbooks).
Experience in cloud technologies (e.g., Serverless Compute, Eventdriven Compute).

Preferred qualifications:

Master's degree in writing, engineering, or scientificrelated field.
Excellent leadership, communication, and collaboration skills.

About the job:

Technical writers communicate complex information clearly, concisely and accurately, and without relying on jargon.

As a technical writer, your role involves tasks such as writing conceptual overviews and procedures, reading and writing example code, or updating help center queries and FAQs.

Technical writers play a big part at Google.

They are a key link between engineers, marketing associates, developer advocates, as well as all the external users and developers, tying together many vital but disparate parts of the Google ecosystem.

You develop complex, in-depth communications for internal and external audiences and manage projects that involve coordinating multiple junior writers.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization's ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google's cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably.

Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Responsibilities:

Update content based on product or program changes and user feedback, and update or delete irrelevant or outdated content, with guidance.
Plan and research content and/or information architecture for smallsized projects, or contribute to planning and researching large projects. Incorporate feedback from relevant stakeholders (e.g., engineers, product managers, program managers, marketing, legal, customers) to align content with user needs and product/program goals. Manage expectations and maintain relationships with stakeholders with guidance.
Review and edit content to improve the content accuracy, clarity, concision, and organization to better meet users' needs, with guidance.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law.

If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.