Remote Senior Technical Author Job in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK Canonical

Who you are

• Cares deeply about functional written communication
• Technical writer with a programmer's mindset or a programmer with a record of producing excellent documentation
• Record of community engagement in open-source software, documentation, or research
• Demonstrates technical curiosity and enthusiasm with excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience in software development contexts with familiarity in Linux, command line, Git, and documentation markup languages
• BSc/BA degree or equivalent qualification

Desirables

• Deep technical domain knowledge
• Open-source community leadership and management
• User-experience, interaction or visual design

What the job involves

• Set a standard of excellence in technical documentation and documentation practice
• Lead the team in creating, maintaining, and improving documentation for a specific product area
• Participate in developing product strategy and establish documentation as a first-class engineering discipline
• Collaborate with colleagues to define documentation excellence and advance the state of the art
• Engage with user communities to ensure documentation meets their needs