Remote Technical Author Job in Detroit, MI Canonical

Who you are

• Cares deeply about functional written communication.
• Has experience as a technical writer or programmer with a strong track record in documentation.
• Engaged with open-source or other technical communities.
• Demonstrates technical curiosity and is fascinated by software technology and its challenges.
• Possesses excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Familiar with Linux, command-line tools, application deployment, system operations, and infrastructure management.
• Has experience with Git and documentation markup languages.
• Able to travel for company events twice a year.

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, contributing important opinions about its function and design.
• Engage with user communities to ensure the documentation meets their needs.
• Encourage community engagement in documentation.
• Standardize content structure, presentation, style, and language across products.
• Collaborate with peers to advance documentation practices at Canonical.
• Challenge and advance documentation best-practice within the disciplinary team.