Content Engineer

Aikido Security • Ghent, VOV

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About The Position

Aikido is hiring a Content Engineer to turn software security concepts into clear, useful content for developers. The role partners with marketing, product, and development teams to build technical knowledge and create blogs, guides, and tutorials that help developers understand security. The position owns technical content from research and ideation through writing, publishing, and optimization, and combines technical writing with senior-level SEO, content automation, and performance analysis. The role also works with design, product, and engineering to produce accurate, helpful content that ranks, converts, and builds trust.

Requirements

• Able to read code, understand APIs, and discuss infrastructure without relying on a subject-matter expert for every paragraph.
• Proven senior-level SEO skills and a track record of content programs that drove measurable organic growth in technical or B2B markets.
• Portfolio of writing for developers or engineers, such as blog posts, tutorials, documentation, or technical guides.
• Experience building content workflows with automation tools, AI-assisted pipelines, or custom scripts.
• Exceptional grammar, research, fact-checking, and editing skills, with the ability to self-edit to a publishable standard.
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving, entrepreneurial environment and able to figure things out independently.
• Native-level English.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with AI/ML tooling, developer tools, cloud infrastructure, or security.
• Experience shipping software or working in a technical role.

Responsibilities

• Own technical content end to end, including keyword research, ideation, writing, publishing, and optimization.
• Create original, technically deep content for developers, platform engineers, and technical decision-makers, including comparisons, explainers, integration guides, benchmarks, and long-form tutorials.
• Apply senior-level SEO methods, including programmatic content, topical authority, internal linking, search-intent mapping, and competitive search optimization.
• Build content workflows and automations using tools such as AirOps, Clay, n8n, or custom scripts for research, briefs, drafts, and distribution.
• Collaborate with design to create useful visuals such as architecture diagrams, code snippets, and comparison tables.
• Audit and optimize existing content using performance data, taking ownership of results as well as writing.
• Partner with product and engineering to turn technical knowledge into content that ranks, converts, and builds trust.

Benefits

• Equity.
• Flexible working hours.
• High trust and an open, informal atmosphere.
• Significant ownership and opportunities to shape important projects and grow with the company.
• Top-tier technology pay.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed