Technical Writer Intern

CrowdStrike is a global leader in cybersecurity. Our University Program is dedicated to attracting and cultivating the next generation of talent in virtually every field. Our program offers paid positions that allow students and recent graduates to gain real-world experience and develop essential skills while they learn from the best and brightest working professionals. We offer our interns a structured program and supportive environment where they can ignite their passion for the future. Our University Program is designed to provide participants exposure to meaningful work that supports our mission to make the digital world a safer place to live and work. CrowdStrike is where your talent meets cutting-edge tech. Ready to start building a career you can be proud of? Join us!

About the Role:

As a Technical Writer Intern, you’ll be documenting our complex, interesting, and well-planned system architecture for our cybersecurity product. To accelerate our teams, you’ll help document our essential CrowdStrike architecture and data models. We’re looking for someone to capture what currently exists and how it got there, as well as keep up with new developments.

This writer will be embedded in the architecture team to produce documentation intended for internal stakeholders, like our system architects, data scientists, and cloud dev teams. They’ll partner with our technical writing team for writing standards and reviews.

What You’ll Do:

• 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.

What You’ll Need:

• 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.

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What You Can Expect:

• Executive Speaker Series & Tech Talks

• Fun socials and give-back events (e.g. virtual trivia, escape rooms, etc.)

• Development workshops to grow your soft and hard skills

• Networking opportunities with fellow interns and CrowdStrikers

• Owning impactful projects that move the company forward

• Working alongside a diverse and global team

• Assigned mentor and continuous feedback

• Participation in our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)

• Access to our FalconFit Wellness Program and Employee Assistance Program

• Fun Slack channels (e.g. food, gaming, sports, pets, etc.)

• Paid holidays and 401k matching

• Remote-first culture

• Market leader in compensation

We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging where everyone feels seen, heard, valued for who they are and empowered to succeed. Our approach to cultivating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture is rooted in listening, learning and collective action. By embracing the diversity of our people, we achieve our best work and fuel innovation - generating the best possible outcomes for our customers and the communities they serve.

CrowdStrike is committed to maintaining an environment of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action. If you need reasonable accommodation to access the information provided on this website, please contact [email protected]​, for further assistance.

CrowdStrike, Inc. is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The hourly rate for this position is $40.Expected Close Date of Job Posting is:02-11-2024