Are you a coder who loves to write? Do you want to have a profound impact on the future of Cloud Technology? The Technical Content Experience (TCX) team, also known as AWS Documentation, is looking for a programmer writer to support Amazon OpenSearch, a fully managed service that makes it easier to deploy, operate, and scale OpenSearch (now supporting Apache Lucene 9) clusters securely and cost-effectively on AWS.

You will need a technical background with experience writing technical documentation. You should also understand identity and access management concepts and have respect for security best practices. You should have a unique ability to think big and anticipate how customers will want to use AWS services together to deliver results.

This is an opportunity to explain complex information concisely. The successful candidate will demonstrate a history of seamless interactions with software developers, technical product managers, developer advocates, customer representatives, and customers. This is a customer-obsessed, dynamic team of talented, geographically distributed, highly technical communicators. Join us on our journey to provide high-quality documentation and code examples to our customers.
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Key job responsibilities
* Create and maintain technical content for Amazon OpenSearch customers that is accurate, discoverable, and well-organized.
* Work with metrics and stakeholders to make improvements to OpenSearch documentation and UX to continually improves customer experience.
* Develop scripts, sample code, and technical procedures that are easy to use.
* Produce multi-service code examples that reflect common customer journey and usage patterns.
* Develop and formalize working relationships and processes to ensure code examples in guides are up to date, run as expected, and have unit tests.
* Develop and lead initiatives on the Code Examples team to improve code example delivery and publication mechanisms.
* Provide thorough and insightful peer code reviews.
* Mentor junior team members in team tools and processes, and provide guidance in how to create and publish code examples.
* Implement efficiencies that increase team output.
* Anticipate customer needs and be the "first customer".
* Dive deep to become a subject-matter expert in your area of ownership.
* Impact product CX, UX design, roadmap priorities, and engineering team goals.

A day in the life
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren’t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life—both in and outside of work.

About the team
The AWS Documentation team writes and provides support for a diverse technical audience, such as developers, DevOps professionals, IT professionals, and technical program managers. On behalf of our customers, we innovate, we research, we learn, and we experiment. We collaborate with product managers to understand our customers’ needs. We partner with software developers to learn about the inner workings of AWS services so that we can influence product design and the customer experience with the product. We know that what we do makes a difference to our customers. We work and train together so that we are always learning from one another, and we celebrate and support the career progression of our team members.

Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

This team is part of AWS Utility Computing:

Utility Computing (UC)

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.