Senior Technical Writer

About the Position

The MongoDB Documentation team is a group of writers and engineers who develop and maintain the documentation for the MongoDB product family. Our goal is to help our readers, both humans and AI, successfully use MongoDB products by providing outstanding documentation. The MongoDB Documentation team is a part of the MongoDB Core Product organization and is tightly integrated with the engineering teams responsible for each product.

The Docs team is responsible for documenting all aspects of the MongoDB data platform including the database, query language, Atlas, Vector Search, VoyageAI models, Full-Text Search, Stream Processing, client libraries, administrative tools, connectors, and more.

Your AI-forward mindset coupled with strong writing and technical skills will create clear reference docs and tutorials on high-complexity features. Your work, along with the other two MongoDB Docs teams, support AI agents, answer engines, and a large global community of new and experienced MongoDB users.

We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Gurgaon, Bengaluru or Mumbai for our hybrid working model.

Responsibilities

• Advocate for users in everything you write
• Work with technical and non-technical teams to meet the documentation needs of our users
• Research complex product features and validate with diligent testing
• Produce technically accurate and well-written documentation
• Contribute feedback to the team through copy review and planning discussions

Requirements

• Experience in a technical writing, technical communications, developer relations, or similar role in the software industry
• Experience writing technical documentation from scratch in English
• Strong critical reading and writing skills
• Hands-on experience using AI tools to accelerate documentation work
• Sound editorial judgment to evaluate AI-generated content against source material for technical accuracy
• Experience with cloud and database technologies
• Ability to read code for technical examples in at least one programming language (e.g., C++, C#, Java, Python, JavaScript)
• Experience testing and validating documentable features and concepts

We Offer

• Opportunity to work in a hybrid model
• Be part of a team that is integral to MongoDB's success
• Professional growth and development opportunities

About the Company

MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified data platform, the most widely available, globally distributed data platform on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud data platform and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

With offices worldwide and over 67,000 customers, including AI-native startups and approximately 75% of the Fortune 100, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.

Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It’s what makes us MongoDB.

To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!

MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.

MongoDB is an equal opportunities employer.

Req ID - 3273561980