Akash Network is hiring a

Web3 Technical Writer

Looking to contribute to Web3? Akash Network, created by Overclock Labs, is the world’s first decentralized peer-to-peer marketplace for cloud compute. Join the team that is providing infrastructure to power the next generation of the Internet. We envision a world where cloud compute is permissionless, sovereign, and open. Our global team includes renowned open-source, cloud, and blockchain developers, as well as seasoned experts from leading technology companies. 

Overclock Labs is a distributed and growing team. You will find more ownership, flexibility, and freedom at Akash than at other companies. We offer a competitive salary, remote work, unlimited vacation, and unparalleled growth opportunities at the intersection of blockchain, crypto, cloud and Web3.

As Technical Writer at Overclock Labs you will join a small, fast-growing team of professionals who spearhead the adoption of Akash Network. This role reports into the Product organization, that includes product management, design, developer relations and technical documentation functions. You will own and drive the information architecture of our technical documentation and produce content for product releases, working closely with Product & Engineering. You will need to be hands-on with the product (try out happy paths) and shadow engineers to learn about more complex workflows, in order to create user guides and how-tos. The content you produce will highlight features, benefits, and functionality of the Akash Network, its utility token (AKT), as well as the ecosystem of tools around it. Through written and visual content, you will support ongoing product documentation to clearly articulate the platform’s capabilities and administration mechanics. Technical content is focused around Golang based CLI, web-based frontend applications and interaction with APIs. Familiarity with Docker or equivalent and containerized applications is desired.

Please include any examples (public hyperlinks) of past technical documentation/technical writing work, along with your application (links in resume work too)

• 5+ years of experience with technical documentation on technical products/SaaS platforms
• Passionate about communicating emerging technologies
• Strong writing skills and attention to detail 
• Ability to present information clearly and concisely
• Experience working with developer communities
• Experience with technical writing for developer focused products, ideally for containerized applications or similar cloud native infrastructure
• Unfazed by github readmes (markdown) and developer documentation
• While prior knowledge of blockchains is not a requirement, familiarity with and a desire to learn about proof-of-stake consensus based chains, decentralization and Web3.0 is a nice-to-have
• Ability to learn quickly in a fast-paced startup environment 
• Proven ability to work with design, product and engineering in an Agile development processes
• Ability to prioritize, time manage and work with a distributed team, across multiple time zones

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Akash Product, Engineering, Support and Community teams to document emerging features and capabilities 
• Be part of the Product and Engineering workflow to document emerging product features
• Ensure product documentation is digestible by both highly technical and non-technical audiences, leading to greater product usage and adoption by key user personas and ecosystem partners
• Convert frequent and prominent issues received by the support organization as Knowledge Base (KB) articles

Akash Network is the world's first distributed peer-to-peer marketplace for cloud compute that provides a fast, efficient, and low-cost deployment solution. Utilizing containerization and open-source technology, Akash Network is capable of leveraging the 85% of underutilized cloud capacity in 8+ million data centers worldwide, enabling anyone to buy and sell compute. Developers leveraging Akash Network can access cloud compute at a fraction of the cost compared to centralized cloud providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Alibaba.