Technical Writer Freelance

oso puts security in the hands of the makers. We’re doing this by delivering security as code, or as Charity Majors (cofounder & CTO of Honeycomb) put it, “Consumer-quality developer tools” for security (https://twitter.com/mipsytipsy/status/1288326027001782273).

We recently released oso into Developer Preview, and the feedback has been amazing. While we’ve written a lot of documentation, one of the primary barriers to engaging new and would-be users is showing them when and how to use oso. To that end, we are looking for a technical writer to help us create more articles, blog posts and documentation for our user community.

Who you are

• Act like an owner – You are accountable to results over the process. You prioritize your team’s success over the success of any one project.
• Desire for feedback – You seek out critical feedback. You have the courage to give critical feedback to others.
• Mind and heart of the user – You look for ways to understand users’ motivations, frustrations, perspectives, and habits. You seek out information on target use cases. You prioritize the user experience above ours.
• Sense of urgency – You get satisfaction from getting concrete output done in a short period of time. You prefer to beg for forgiveness vs. ask for permission.
• Growth mindset – You cultivate your qualities and skills through effort. You have a history of practice, learning and expansion. You get pleasure out of having range

What you’ll do

• Write some quick blog posts by repurposing pages on the docs and interviewing our cofounder/CTO
• Write longer ‘how-to’ blog posts, which might include building sample apps or showcasing new features in action
• Write documentation on new features to make oso users feel supported
• Write long-form content that’s relevant to our user base of developers trying to solve problems related to authentication, authorization, and application security more generally

Requirements

• You get what kind of content developers want to read, and can articulate this
• You can write clear and creative content, and can demonstrate this by sharing at least 5 writing samples of long-form content you wrote on your own
• You can code and learn new technical concepts quickly
• You know the concept “Show, don’t tell” (or you can Google it, then grok it)

Nice to have

• Experience with Rust