Remote Technical Author Job in Portland, ME Canonical

Who you are

• Cares deeply about functional written communication.
• Has a programmer's mindset and a record of producing excellent documentation.
• Engaged in community activities, in open-source software, documentation, research, or other disciplines.
• Sympathetic to open-source software needs and challenges.
• Demonstrates technical curiosity and is fascinated by software technology challenges.
• Displays strong documentation skills, insight and enthusiasm.
• Experienced in software development environments; Familiar with Linux, command line usage, application deployment, system operations, and Git.
• Holds a BSc/BA degree or equivalent.
• Able to travel twice a year for team 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 of the product, with important opinions about its function and design.
• Engage with user communities to ensure that our documentation meets their needs.
• Encourage and support community engagement in and contribution to documentation.
• Help standardise the structure, presentation, style and language of content across products.
• Collaborate with documentation peers to advance the state of the art in documentation at Canonical.
• Advance documentation understanding and best-practice as part of a disciplinary team.