Remote Technical Author Job in Chicago, IL 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 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

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 with important opinions about its function and design
• Engage with user communities to ensure documentation meets their needs
• Encourage and support community engagement and contribution to documentation