Remote Technical Author Job in Columbus, OH Canonical

Who you are

• Cares deeply about functional written communication
• Has a programmer's mindset or is a programmer with a record of producing excellent documentation
• Has a record of community engagement in open-source software or other disciplines
• Demonstrates technical curiosity and is fascinated by software technology and its challenges
• Has demonstrable documentation skills, insight and enthusiasm
• Has experience in software development contexts and is familiar with Linux, 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 events

Desirables

• Deep technical domain knowledge
• Open-source community 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 with important opinions about its function and design
• Engage with user communities to ensure documentation meets their needs
• Encourage and support community engagement in documentation
• Help standardize 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