Technical Writer Intern (Remote)

CrowdStrike

Dec 12, 2023

Applications are closed

Internship
Full-time
Summer Internship
Engineering
United States
Remote

Requirements

By the beginning of the internship, interns must have completed at least 2 years at a 4-year undergraduate university graduating between December 2024 -August 2025.
Familiarity with and aptitude for a broad range of engineering topics so you can explore, master, and explain complex systems.
Insatiable curiosity and enthusiasm for modern software development and its challenges.
Willingness to ask foundational questions rather than make assumptions.
Experience researching and explaining internal development concepts, processes and decisions.
Exceptional audience analysis, written and verbal communication, and problem solving.
Portfolio of writing samples, including examples of documenting complex systems for expert audiences.
Bonus Points:
Knowledge of and experience with technical audiences, cybersecurity, and startups strongly preferred.
Background in development.
Experience writing for systems without a GUI.
Passion for seizing opportunities for improvement at every turn.

Responsibilities

Document the principles, structure, and intricacies of our system architecture as it currently exists and how it got there. Include annotations and diagrams that help other people understand what it does, how it does it, and why.
Write what humans need to know about the system, not just what the system does. The key to success in this role is distilling and presenting exactly what your audience needs to know.
Gather information from extensive SME interviews and research in existing docs.
Partner with devs to fully understand their plans, processes, and institutional knowledge, and record it all for posterity.
Organize internal-facing documentation to onboard new developers and to help experienced developers find detailed explanations.
Take initiative to own and drive projects independently, and proactively coordinate reviews.
Work at both a detailed level and a strategic level.

CrowdStrike

Technology

Industry

5001-10,000

Employees

Mission & Purpose

CrowdStrike (Nasdaq: CRWD), a global cybersecurity leader, has redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced cloud-native platform for protecting critical areas of enterprise risk — endpoints and cloud workloads, identity and data. Powered by the CrowdStrike Security Cloud and world-class AI, the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform leverages real-time indicators of attack, threat intelligence, evolving adversary tradecraft and enriched telemetry from across the enterprise to deliver hyper-accurate detections, automated protection and remediation, elite threat hunting and prioritized observability of vulnerabilities. Purpose-built in the cloud with a single lightweight-agent architecture, the Falcon platform delivers rapid and scalable deployment, superior protection and performance, reduced complexity and immediate time-to-value. CrowdStrike: We stop breaches.