MongoDB Translation Quality Analyst Japanese Docs Contract 

United States, New York, New York 

290052936

The MongoDB documentation covers complex technical topics and building engineer-focused content on:

• Database fundamentals
• Distributed systems in the cloud
• Relevance-based and semantic search
• Backup and restoration
• Creating and modifying database deployments
• Enterprise-grade security
• Performance
• Managing high availability and scalability in MongoDB clusters
• Code samples in popular languages (Node.js, Python, Java, Go, and more)

As a Translation Quality Analyst, you will use your Japanese fluency, linguistic expertise, and technical skills to review, validate, and if necessary correct deeply technical product manuals. In this unique and cross-functional position, you’ll have the opportunity to interface with technical writers, linguists, engineers, product managers, and technical services to deliver excellent documentation in a newly offered language.

This role can be based out of our New York City office or remotely in the United States.

Candidates must have 3+ years of combined experience across any of the following roles: translator, technical writer, developer advocate, software engineer, and/or product management. Beyond industry experience, we are looking for someone who is:

1. Experienced translating or authoring highly technical technical content into Japanese
2. A critical reader and a proficient writer
3. Comfortable reading code to understand existing documentation, especially code written in Java, JavaScript, or Go
4. Admirable cross-functional collaboration skills with a track record of working across multiple organizations
5. Resourceful and able to work through complex or time-sensitive challenges
6. Experienced reviewing and updating translated content using Computer-assisted translation (CAT) tools

• Assess quality and technical accuracy of translated documentation pages from a third-party vendor
• Translate content and make corrections where required
• Define and manage a glossary used for translations
• Collaborate with the documentation team when edits to the source material are required
• Report on project status to the Documentation leadership team

• Technical writing experience in a “Docs as Code” environment
• Ability to code and perform basic technical and programming tasks

• You’ve reviewed at least the top 250 documentation pages and made any necessary corrections to ensure high quality and accuracy
• You contribute to and maintain the glossary with common MongoDB terminology
• You are comfortable reaching out to technical writers, linguists, and SMEs on a regular basis

Contract Duration: Two months