Technical Writer - GTM

Materialize is the streaming SQL database company that makes it easy for any developer or analyst to understand streaming data, answer complex questions and build intelligent applications using standard technology. Whether it’s delivering personalized experiences, accurately identifying fraud, building predictive AI, or discovering new business opportunities, the ability to run complex queries on multiple streams of data and keep their answers up to date is critical to making better decisions about the changing world around us.

We are focused on bottom-up developer adoption, our core software is free to use and source available, our business model is a cloud product that handles management of Materialize and lets businesses focus on building value. We have a vibrant developer community on Slack and as much as possible we work in public on GitHub.

The Materialize team includes engineers who were early employees of Cockroach Labs, Ververica, and Stripe. Our work builds on top of Timely Dataflow and Differential Dataflow, both created by our co-founder Frank McSherry, a world-leading computer scientist with decades of award-winning research in all aspects of data.

Kleiner Perkins, Redpoint Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

• Technical Content Strategy: Work with customer-facing teams, product and engineering to identify gaps in knowledge and problem areas in the data space. Help build a roadmap and process for future.
• Technical Writing: Fill knowledge gaps and simplify problem areas with clear technical writing: Conceptual Articles, Guides, Blog Posts, Technical Solutions, Reports, etc...
• Technical Content Editing: Work with engineering team to transform internal knowledge into valuable public-facing articles.

• Technologies: Databases (PostgreSQL), Message Brokers (Kafka), Data Warehouses, dbt
• Concepts: Analytics, data engineering, stream processing, event-driven architectures, data pipelines, migrations/schema evolution, data security, high-availability.
• Languages: SQL, other language familiarity a plus!

• 3+ years of proven experience writing about technical topics, whether this be blog posts, specs, or formal employment as a Technical Writer.
• Ability to convey complex technical concepts in an accessible, concise and consistent way.
• Good understanding and experience working with GitHub for collaboration (pull requests and reviews)

We understand it takes a diverse team of highly intelligent, passionate, curious, and creative people to develop the exceptional product we are building. Our dynamic team has incredible perspectives to share, just as we know you do, and we take great pride in being an equal opportunity employer.