Remote Technical Author Job in Albany, NY Canonical

Who you are

• Cares deeply about functional written communication
• Has a record of community engagement and demonstrable documentation skills
• Is familiar with Linux, command line operations, application deployment, system operations, infrastructure management, Git, and documentation markup languages
• Holds a BSc/BA degree or equivalent and excellent communication skills.

Desirables

• Deep technical domain knowledge
• Open-source leadership
• User-experience design

What the job involves

• Create, maintain and improve software documentation
• Work with engineering team members to help them make effective documentation contributions
• Influence the development of the product as an expert user
• Engage with user communities to ensure documentation meets their needs
• Encourage community engagement in documentation
• Help standardise content structure, presentation, style, and language across products
• Collaborate with documentation peers to advance documentation best practices
• Challenge and advance documentation understanding and best-practice as part of a disciplinary team.