Technical Content Lead - #1802267

QuestDB


Date: 8 hours ago
City: London
Contract type: Full time
Work schedule: Full day
QuestDB
About QuestDB

QuestDB is the fastest growing time-series database in the world.

As a specialized database, QuestDB stores, processes and analyzes time series data in real-time, with a focus on reliability, extreme performance and simplicity. It provides best-in-class hardware efficiency and robust features, saving costs and accelerating time-to-value.

Teams have had success with QuestDB across a wide range of industries, such as Financial Services, Energy, Manufacturing, Web3 and Space Exploration. Category leading companies such as OKX, Mizuho, and Airbus rely on QuestDB for large-scale, data-intensive production systems. Emerging and disruptive startups also leverage QuestDB to gain a significant edge within traditional industries.

Our open source repository has gathered 15k+ stars in three years, and is the fastest growing in our category according to DB-Engines. We are a product-first company with a large community of developers. As a team, we are globally distributed, remote-first and backed by leading venture capital firms and Y Combinator.

The role

We're looking for a dynamic person to own QuestDB’s technical content strategy. Our technical content includes documentation, UIs, articles, websites, repositories, newsletters, language clients and more. Your mission is to guide us towards an overall best-in-class experience for developers in these key areas. As an essential part of the team, you'll orchestrate, execute, and iterate upon content strategies that help grow our open-source community, and drive organic traffic to our website.

The team has your back. You'll work with our engaged community and full R&D team to ensure our overall presence is clear, accurate, and a truly smooth path for developers progressing from their first start and into paying customers and partners. To do so, you'll leverage your refined communication skills and breadth of technical expertise. You'll rely on trusted experiences, while looking forward towards new technologies like AI to continuously improve the user's core experience and refine our voice in the market.

In addition to ownership of high-level content strategy and its supporting systems, this is a hands on contributing role. You will actively create technical content, such as blogs, landing pages, newsletters, tutorials and case studies, and ensure that all communication is genuinely valuable and engaging for developers. Part of your role will be to encourage interaction with our articles, surface developer questions and solutions, and turn community insights and real-world usage into content.

Responsibilities

  • Plan, execute and monitor content strategies.
  • Create engaging pieces of content for a highly technical audience.
  • Collaborate within the team to maintain and evolve QuestDB’s documentation, ensuring it remains accurate, clear, and valuable to our users.
  • Be present in open source and developer communities to understand and follow the latest engineering trends in developer tooling infrastructure.
  • Identify areas of opportunity to drive more organic traffic from technical content.
  • Engage with current users and open source community members to drive content from QuestDB deployments and use cases.
  • Research and implement best practices to optimize SEO for current and new content.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience working on documentation and/or content strategies for developer tools.
  • Demonstrable experience creating engaging technical content for a highly technical audience.
  • Robust capability to own tech content quality, working with the team to keep content up to date and relevant.
  • Comfortable using git and markdown-related technologies.
  • Experience measuring and testing the success of content strategies.
  • Ability to design, build, and maintain systems or processes that improve content planning, production, and performance tracking.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Eager to learn and implement SEO best practices.
  • Strong team player, open to guiding colleagues in your areas of expertise.

Nice to have

Having the following skills would make a candidate stand out:

  • Previous experience distributing technical content to a wide range of technical publications.
  • A background in software engineering along with programming experience and knowledge of database technologies.
  • Familiarity working with time series databases and proficiency in at least one common programming language.

What We Offer

  • Generous equity options package
  • Flexible working hours
  • 100% remote
  • Freedom of choice for your technical equipment
  • Wonderful, highly qualified colleagues
  • Truly international: more than 10 different nationalities
  • A transparent, collaborative & inclusive culture
  • Exciting opportunities for career progression as we grow

Working at QuestDB

We hire talented and passionate people who share our mission to empower developers to solve their problems with data. We are building breakthrough technology to power the infrastructure of tomorrow.

  • We are a company with thousands of users; our mission is to empower them
  • We invest in a culture that promotes ownership, autonomy and independent thinking
  • We have transparent leadership and value employees' strategic inputs
  • Our team is ambitious and tackles the most difficult problems at the deepest data infrastructure layer

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