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Senior Technical Writer


We are looking for a Senior Technical Writer to join our engineering team in Lexington, Massachusetts. The ideal candidate will have seven or more years of experience documenting systems software, relational databases and SQL, client APIs in Java, C++, or .NET, and development environments on UNIX and Windows platforms.

 

Responsibilities

  • Research, write, edit, organize, and deliver finished StreamBase documentation components, including context-sensitive online help for StreamBase Studio, an Eclipse-based development environment for authoring and testing real-time applications. Other deliverable components include online guides and articles for the StreamBase Developer Zone website.
  • Acquire a comprehensive technical understanding of the StreamBase features.
  • Coordinate and collaborate with development, product management, marketing, professional services, and related groups through the product-lifecycle process to collect information, meet requirements, interpret technical specifications, and assist in the product's development.
  • Participate in project planning, attending project meetings, creating and maintaining a documentation project plan and schedule, setting milestones, and coordinating technical review cycles.
  • Work in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines.

 

Qualifications

We are a close-knit team working happily on a fast-paced schedule to deliver a paradigm-changing product line. Team fit, dedication, and energy are as important as technical skills.
Our technical documentation is in DocBook XML, transformed to HTML and to Eclipse Help as part of the software build system. We use a near-WYSIWYG editor for the XML source files. Technical writers work closely with engineering and our input on design issues is sought after and valued.
The ideal candidate will have experience matching the following points, listed in order of importance.

  • A proven track record as a Senior or Principal Technical Writer delivering task-oriented documentation, reference materials, programming API documentation, and online Help systems.
  • Superb English writing skills that can be validated with writing samples.
  • Experience working within the boundaries of standard technical documentation style guides.
  • Experience with the cycles of software development projects.
  • Daily experience working with version control systems, especially Subversion.
  • Daily experience with a validating XML editor, including XXE, Oxygen, XMLSpy, Structured FrameMaker, Arbortext Editor, or others.
  • Experience working with single-source documentation, including FrameMaker coupled with WebWorks. Direct, daily experience with XML documentation is a major plus.
  • Experience working with Microsoft Windows XP is essential. Vista experience is a plus.
  • Experience working with Linux and with commands at the bash prompt is highly desirable. As an alternative, experience with Cygwin or the MKS Toolkit under Windows is a plus.
  • Experience with the Eclipse development environment and Eclipse-based products. Experience writing Eclipse cheat sheets is a plus.
  • Knowledge of SQL and database products such as DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, and MySQL is highly desirable.
  • Experience using graphical tools to create conceptual diagrams and annotated screen shots, such as Gimp, Visio, PhotoShop, Paint Shop Pro, Inkscape, Snag-It, and similar tools, is a plus.
  • Knowledge of HTML editing and experience with an HTML editor such as HomeSite or Aptana is a plus.
  • Experience developing transformation scripts in XSL or Perl is highly desirable.
  • Experience with bug tracking software such as JIRA, RT, or Bugzilla is a plus.
  • Experience with wikis and other project collaboration tools is a plus.
  • A degree in Computer Science, Information Science, English, Journalism, Communications, Technical Writing, or a related discipline is a plus.

This position is based in our corporate headquarters in Lexington, MA.

 

About StreamBase

Featured by MSNBC, Forbes.com, The Wall Street Journal, PC Magazine, and other top tier publications, StreamBase is poised for aggressive growth and expansion in 2008 and 2009. Founded by experts in database and object-oriented technologies, StreamBase is headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts, just minutes from Cambridge. We offer free snacks, flexible work hours, three weeks of vacation per year, stock options, a shuttle bus to Alewife, and a company culture that strongly rewards technical accomplishments.

StreamBase Systems, Inc, a leader in high-performance Complex Event Processing (CEP), provides software for rapidly building systems that analyze and act on real-time streaming data. StreamBase’s Event Processing Platform™ combines a rapid application development environment, a low-latency high-throughput event server, and the broadest connectivity to real-time and historical data.

Customers include leading capital markets firms, government agencies and other organization that rely on real-time data analysis for instantaneous decision-making. Among these are 6 of the top 10 global investment banks and 3 of the top 5 hedge funds in Europe and North America, who utilize StreamBase to rapidly develop and deploy complex applications that automate trading processes, ensure trading accuracy and increase trading profits.

StreamBase’s considerable presence, particularly within capital markets, is driven by the leadership of technology experts, including database luminary Dr. Mike Stonebraker, top-tier investors, a seasoned management team, and a talented employee base.  StreamBase has generated $31M in venture funding from venture firms such as Highland Capital Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Accel, and the CIA’s venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel.

StreamBase is headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts, with additional offices in New York, London, Boston and Washington, D.C.

Our software engineering group (developers, writers, QA specialists) is comprised of bright, highly motivated individuals with expertise in high-performance, distributed systems software on Linux, Solaris, and Windows. Our code base is Java and C++. Our product trial kit is freely downloadable from the StreamBase Developer Zone. Our product documentation is tightly integrated with StreamBase Studio, and is installed with the StreamBase kit. In addition, a copy of our standalone documentation is available in the Developer Zone: http://www.streambase.com/developers/docs/latest (URL opens in new browser window).

 

Contact Us

Please send your resume to careers@streambase.com, with "Senior Technical Writer" in the subject line.

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