Remote Technical Author Job in Kansas City, KS Canonical

Who you are

• Cares deeply about functional written communication.
• Combines a technical mindset with extensive experience in technical writing or programming - essential for producing high-quality documentation.
• Demonstrates a strong record of community engagement in open-source, documentation, or related fields.
• Exhibits technical curiosity and is deeply fascinated by software technology and its challenges.
• Possesses hands-on experience with Linux, command lines, application deployment, system management, Git, and documentation markup languages.
• Holds excellent written and verbal communication skills, alongside a BSc/BA degree or equivalent.
• Has the ability and willingness to travel for company 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 support effective documentation contributions.
• Influence product development as an expert user with vital opinions on its function and design.
• Engage user communities to ensure documentation meets their needs.
• Encourage community engagement in contributing to documentation.
• Standardize the structure, presentation, style, and language of content across products.
• Collaborate with documentation peers to advance documentation best practices.