At JetBrains, many teams rely on data and shared tools in their daily work – whether they are building products, improving AI solutions, running marketing campaigns, managing finances, or tracking sales. Our goal is to make these resources easy to find, understand, and use.
We’re looking for a Senior Technical Writer to join our Data Office department and help us create clear, structured documentation for data, metrics, tools, and services. You’ll work on content such as data catalogs, metrics documentation, user guides, SDK documentation, and UI text – helping colleagues understand and take advantage of our data ecosystem.
This role goes beyond writing. You’ll take ownership of a specific area, improve processes, lead documentation projects, support contributors, mentor junior writers, and help raise the overall quality of documentation throughout the department.
We’d love for you to join our team if you have- Extensive writing experience within software, IT, or data-related domains.
- Strong technical foundation and an understanding of software development concepts and workflows.
- Experience documenting APIs, SDKs, developer tools, data tools, datasets, metrics, data catalogs, or other complex systems.
- Experience with docs-as-code, Markdown or XML, and version control (specifically Git).
- Excellent English and writing skills, with the ability to explain complex topics clearly and empathize with different highly technical audiences.
- A proactive mindset and the ability to work independently, take initiative, prioritize tasks, and move work forward.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, including an inclination toward mentoring, knowledge sharing, and improving how the team works.
- Strong understanding of data analysis concepts and terminology.
- Experience leading or independently completing technical documentation projects.
- Experience improving documentation processes with templates, automation, scripts, or AI tools.
- Experience optimizing content for both human readers and AI-based discovery and reuse.#LI-REDER
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Skills Required
- Extensive writing experience within software, IT, or data-related domains.
- Strong technical foundation and understanding of software development concepts and workflows.
- Experience documenting APIs, SDKs, developer tools, data tools, datasets, metrics, or data catalogs.
- Experience with docs-as-code, Markdown or XML, and version control (specifically Git).
- Excellent English and writing skills, with ability to explain complex topics to technical audiences.
- Proactive mindset; ability to work independently, prioritize tasks, and move work forward.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, including mentoring and knowledge sharing.
- Strong understanding of data analysis concepts and terminology.
- Experience leading or independently completing technical documentation projects.
- Experience improving documentation processes with templates, automation, scripts, or AI tools.
- Experience optimizing content for human readers and AI-based discovery and reuse.
JetBrains Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about JetBrains and has not been reviewed or approved by JetBrains.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Fair & Transparent Compensation: Pay is considered market-competitive for many product and engineering roles in key locations, with published salary ranges on some postings aiding expectation-setting. Feedback suggests total compensation feels fair relative to local markets even if packages are positioned as “competitive but not top‑of‑big‑tech”.
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Flexible Benefits — Flexible Benefits: Work setup includes hybrid/remote options and flexible hours across many locations. The ability to work abroad for part of the year adds practical flexibility to where work gets done.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Leave & Time Off Breadth: Time off includes additional vacation days beyond local minimums in many countries. U.S. materials also highlight PTO, sick leave, and holidays, underscoring breadth beyond statutory baselines.
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What We Do
JetBrains creates intelligent software development tools consistently used and trusted by 11.4 million professionals and 88 Fortune Global Top 100 companies. Our lineup of more than 30 products includes IDEs for most programming languages and technologies, such as IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, and others, as well as products for team collaboration, like YouTrack and TeamCity. JetBrains is also known for creating the Kotlin programming language, a cross-platform language used by more than 5 million developers worldwide yearly and recommended by Google as the preferred language for Android development. The company is headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic, and has offices around the world. JetBrains IDEs * IntelliJ IDEA (Java and Kotlin Developers) * PyCharm (Python developers) * PhpStorm (PHP developers) * GoLand (Go developers) * Rider (.NET developers) * CLion (C and C++ developers) * Rust Rover (Rust developers) * WebStorm (JavaScript & TypesScript developers) * RubyMine (Ruby and Rails developers) * DataGrip (Tool for multiple databases) * ReSharper (Extension for Visual Studio) * Fleet (Multilingual IDE and code editor) * Aqua (IDE for test automation engineers) .NET & Visual Studio: * Rider (IDE for .NET developers) * ReSharper (Extension for Visual Studio) * ReSharper C++ (Visual Studio Extension for C++ developers) * dotCover (.NET Unit Test Runner and Code Coverage Tool) * dotMemory (.NET Memory Profiler) * dotTrace (.NET Performance Profiler) * dotPeek (.NET decompiler and assembly browser) Team Tools: * TeamCity (Powerful CI out of the box) * YouTrack (Project management for all your teams) * Space (Intelligent code collaboration platform) * Datalore (Collaborative data science platform) * Qodana (Code quality platform for teams) Programming Languages: * Kotlin (Programming Language for the JVM and Android) * MPS (Create Your Own Domain-Specific Language) Education: * JetBrains Academy (Learn and Teach Computer Science) Profile by JetBrains s.r.o.
