Remote Technical Author Job in Anchorage, AK Canonical

Who you are

• Cares deeply about functional written communication.
• Is a technical writer with a programmer's mindset or a programmer with a record of producing excellent documentation.
• Has a record of community engagement in open-source software, documentation, research or other disciplines.
• Demonstrates technical curiosity and is fascinated by software technology and its challenges.
• Has demonstrable documentation skills, insight and enthusiasm.
• Has experience of software development contexts; is familiar with Linux, working on the command line, application deployment, system operations, and infrastructure management, Git, documentation markup languages.
• Has excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Holds a BSc/BA degree or equivalent.
• Is able to travel twice a year for up to two weeks for events.

Desirables

• Deep technical domain knowledge
• Open-source community leadership and management
• User-experience, interaction or visual 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 of the product, who has important opinions about its function and design.
• Engage with user communities to ensure that our documentation meets their needs.
• Encourage and support community engagement in and contribution to documentation.
• Help standardise the structure, presentation, style and language of content across products.
• Collaborate with documentation peers to advance the state of the art in documentation at Canonical.
• Challenge and advance documentation understanding and best-practice as part of a disciplinary team.