Documentation Engineer

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New York
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 200 - 275 annuallyFunction: Content & Editorial (Writing/Editing)Experience: 3+ yearsSkills: []

Partner with product teams to curate and maintain Modal’s technical documentation as agents increasingly deploy and operate Modal Apps. Own content architecture, evolve docs as new features launch, and build innovative documentation formats and delivery channels. Create documentation standards, style guides, and automated enforcement to keep code examples and prose correct, collaborating across engineering to ensure clarity, consistency, and accuracy.

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13 hours ago

Documentation Engineer

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Job Summary

Partner with product teams to curate and maintain Modal’s technical documentation as agents increasingly deploy and operate Modal Apps. Own content architecture, evolve docs as new features launch, and build innovative documentation formats and delivery channels. Create documentation standards, style guides, and automated enforcement to keep code examples and prose correct, collaborating across engineering to ensure clarity, consistency, and accuracy.
Location: New York
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Content & Editorial (Writing/Editing)
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Think holistically about content architecture and how the docs should evolve as Modal introduces new products and features.
  • •Innovate on documentation formats and delivery channels to optimize agent productivity in collaboration with the Agent DX research team.
  • •Develop content standards, style guides, and automated enforcement mechanisms to ensure consistent, high-quality documentation.
  • •Build and maintain automated pipelines that enforce the correctness of code examples and prose descriptions.
  • •Collaborate with engineers across the company to author clear, consistent, and correct documentation.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 200 - 275 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •3+ years of experience in an engineering, product, or developer relations role, ideally in the devtools or infrastructure space.
  • •Experience authoring and/or editing high-quality technical content for developers.
  • •Knowledge of agentic engineering workflows and best practices.
  • •Comfort with modern software development practices, including version control, CI/CD, and testing.
Experience:3+ years
Tech Stack:Version controlCI/CDTesting

Company Brief

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Provides a serverless, high-performance cloud platform for AI, ML, and data workloads — offering instant autoscaling, elastic GPU access, and developer-first tooling to run inference, training, and batch jobs at scale.
Industry: Cloud Computing
Company Size: Small (11 to 50 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series B
Headquarters: New York City, United States
Founded: 2021
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