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| Summary | Details |
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Employment | Full-Time |
Location | Distributed North America, Distributed Europe |
About Source | At Source, we aim to revolutionize developer data management for the open web. Our mission is to simplify data handling for edge devices, local-first software, and distributed infrastructures, allowing developers to unleash their creativity and build world-changing tools that realize the open web’s full potential. Our suite of new technologies work together to make it easy for developers to ship edge and local-first software. We empower developers to create software and devices that seamlessly communicate, offer granular data control, and secure data cryptographically to ensure trust. Join us in shaping the future of data management and the open web. |
Salary | Minimum expected salary: $80,000 USD + equity |
Shape the future of the Open Web
Source is the developer data management infrastructure for the open web. With an expected 75% of the data generated by humanity to be at the edge, developers at organizations of all sizes face complex challenges in managing distributed data. Our database, DefraDB, along with our Trust Protocol, SourceHub, provides developers with the tools to create and deploy software for edge environments. With native cryptographic primitives for data security, granular data governance, and interoperability and portability across the edge. We address the crucial aspects of edge data management, empowering developers to introduce the next wave of local-first software and edge AI for smart city, industry 4.0, and beyond.
About the Role
As the first full-time staff technical writer on our team, you will have the opportunity to work with our community, engineers, and CTO to write clear documentation that is useful, clear, and succinct. Your documentation will be the very first touchpoint that developers will experience and the very first words they will read. You will be responsible for our documentation to make our toolkit (the APIs, SDKs, and CLI's) even more powerful and successful.
You'll be working on
- Contribute to the growth of the open-source developer ecosystem. You bring your expertise and commitment to excellence to help build documentation that makes it easy for everyone.
- Understanding the underlining intuition of Source technology.
- Writing technical documentation that is useful, clear, and succinct.
You're most likely to succeed in this role if you
- Enjoy technical writing and engaging with an open-source community.
- Have early startup experience.
- Have experience writing technical documentation for developers.
- 5+ years of relevant experience.
Success in this role means
In the first month, you will join your engineering team and start to learn about our production systems, software development workflow, and the architecture of DefraDB and complementary technologies. We believe that it's essential for you to take this first month to become familiar with our technology, company, and our culture.
As our team grows you will have the opportunity to not only shape the direction of development for DefraDB but work alongside the founders to shape the future of the project and Source ecosystem as a whole. We want our users to have a phenomenal experience using our product and you play a crucial role in making DefraDB a joy to use. We also offer technical training and experienced mentorship to help you learn and grow into whatever you wish it to be.