Remote Technical Author Job in London, UK 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
• Is sympathetic to the needs and challenges of open-source software and its communities
• Demonstrates technical curiosity, and is fascinated by software technology and its challenges
• Has demonstrable documentation skills, insight and enthusiasm
• 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
• Has excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Holds a BSc/BA degree or equivalent
• Is able to travel twice a year for up to two weeks for events

Desirables

• Functional written communication
• Technical writer with programmer’s mindset
• Community engagement
• Open-source understanding
• Technical curiosity
• Documentation skills, insight, enthusiasm
• Software development context
• Written and verbal communication skills
• BSc/BA degree or equivalent
• Travel availability

What the job involves

• Lead the documentation efforts of an engineering team focused on a product or family of products
• Develop documentation that serves the needs of the product's users, embracing the principles of the Diátaxis documentation framework
• Have a broad impact and responsibility for the quality of the user experience with the product
• Contribute towards the long-term success of the project
• Participate in the development of product strategy, including product design and user experience
• Combine technical expertise with leadership in documentation, collaborating with colleagues across the company
• Establish documentation as a first-class engineering discipline
• Join Canonical's documentation practice team to define documentation excellence and drive the development of documentation practice and theory

Application process

• All applications and candidates are handled through this one entry-point
• Discuss seniority levels, suitable teams and more later in the process