Overview

Solana is a high performance blockchain that can enable growing decentralized applications and systems to scale without sacrificing security. Our team is highly specialized, so we’re looking for talented people who are willing to jump right in and use their expertise to help us find product market fit as we build out the Solana ecosystem. If you’re looking to join a fast paced, problem solving environment in the center of blockchain infrastructure, cryptocurrency and decentralized applications, then read on.

About the role:

Technical writers make Solana easy to use by creating useful content for developers and everyday users. Our documentation must exemplify quality and instill trust.

Solana cares deeply about developer experience, both for our users and engineering employees. We need writers with an exceptional writing ability and solid technical competence to provide an engaging developer experience.

You will:

  • Document new features, changes, and use cases
  • Document standards, guidelines, and best practices for engineers
  • Organize documentation and make it easily discoverable
  • Maintain content quality through curation and content performance analysis
  • Push Solana and the industry forward by dreaming up and implementing new ways to deliver, author, analyze, and interact with technical content

We’re looking for someone who is:

  • Proficient in writing software documentation
  • Creative, empathetic, collaborative, optimistic, and curious
  • Adept at communicating technical concepts clearly and precisely
  • Able to quickly iterate and improve
  • Proficient in HTML and Markdown
  • Conversant with Unix
  • Conversant with Git
  • A perpetual learner and teacher

It’s nice if you have:

  • Experience writing about Rust or another backend language like Go, C++, PHP, Node, or Java
  • Experience creating automated documentation tools
  • Experience with large information architecture projects

You should include these in your application:

  • Any additional materials (e.g., writing sample in a particular style, description of why you want to work in the role, paragraph describing relevant experience)

Benefits

  • Very competitive salary and benefits
  • Unlimited vacation policy
  • Generous wellness benefits and equipment/workspace budget
  • Yearly, all expenses paid offsites (sometimes for the whole family!)
  • Options to work in San Francisco, Boulder, or San Diego offices (or remote!)