Remote Technical Author Job in Jacksonville, FL Canonical

Who you are

• Cares deeply about functional written communication.
• Possesses a programmer's mindset or has strong technical writing skills.
• Demonstrates community engagement in open-source or similar fields.
• Sympathetic to the challenges of open-source software communities.
• Demonstrates technical curiosity and fascination by software technology.
• Has experience in software development contexts including Linux, command line operations, Git.
• Holds a BSc/BA degree or equivalent.
• Able to travel twice yearly for events.

Desirables

• Deep technical 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 and contribution to documentation.
• Standardize the structure, presentation, style, and language of content.
• Collaborate with peers to advance documentation practices at Canonical.