Remote Technical Author Job in Pittsburgh, PA Canonical

Who you are

• Cares deeply about functional written communication
• 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, or other disciplines
• Demonstrates technical curiosity and is fascinated by software technology and its challenges
• Has demonstrable documentation skills, insight and enthusiasm
• Familiar with Linux, command line, application deployment, system operations
• Experienced in infrastructure management, Git, and documentation markup languages
• Possesses excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Able to travel twice a year for team events

Desirables

• Deep technical domain knowledge
• Open-source community leadership
• User-experience design
• Interaction design
• Visual 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 and support community engagement in documentation
• Help standardise the structure, presentation, style, and language of content across products
• Collaborate with documentation peers to advance documentation practices
• Challenge and advance documentation understanding and best-practice as part of a disciplinary team