My group, Microsoft Visual Studio User Education, is looking for experienced writers with programming knowledge to produce developer tools extensibility documentation and code samples that help improve customer satisfaction and increase product adoption, leading to increased revenues for Microsoft. As a Programming Writer, you will get to explore the insides of the Microsoft Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" architecture, learn how Visual Studio can be extended and customized, create Visual Studio plug-in code samples, and share your knowledge and samples with independent software and tools vendors, developer experimenters, and developer enthusiasts. The documentation and code that you will produce are used by everyday developers to customize Visual Studio and by business partners to create and sell plug-ins that are fully integrated into the Visual Studio development environment.
For this position, you must be a highly-confident self starter with independent problem-solving skills. You must be able to thoroughly craft documentation plans and their corresponding documentation specs and get them approved by key business decision makers; create and stick to rapid and agile content production schedules; adapt quickly to ever-changing work priorities; respond adroitly to customer feedback from multiple incoming channels; and foster highly-collaborative working relationships with program managers, developers, and testers across the product development organization.
Candidates must have industry experience producing high-quality, technically accurate documentation that describes complex programming concepts; demonstrating how to accomplish a wide range of programming tasks; and showing how to use multiple related application programming interfaces (APIs) to accomplish tasks with code; all while working with established documentation style guidelines and using a product development organization’s specifications, source code, header files, and other relevant resources. Additional required qualifications include at least a Bachelor's degree in Technical Communications, Computer Science, or a related field, and at least intermediate proficiency in at least one Microsoft .NET programming language such as Microsoft Visual C#, Microsoft Visual C++, or Microsoft Visual Basic. The ideal candidate should also have general experience with Visual Studio, as well as experience extending or customizing a software development tool such as Visual Studio.
If you are interested in this opportunity and have the required skills and experience, please apply for the position via the Microsoft Careers Web site. This job is based in the United States at the Redmond campus. Use the search criteria of Job Code equal to 176959 or 185295.
-- Paul
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