Remote Technical Author Job in Salt Lake City, UT Canonical

Who you are

• Cares about functional written communication
• Technical writer with a programmer's mindset or vice versa
• Has community engagement experience, particularly in open-source
• Demonstrates technical curiosity and insight
• Has experience with Linux, command line, application deployment, system operations, infrastructure management, Git, documentation markup languages
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Can travel twice a year for 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 help them make effective documentation contributions
• Influence the development of the product as an expert user
• Engage with user communities and ensure documentation meets their needs
• Encourage community engagement in documentation
• Standardize the structure, presentation, style, and language of content across products
• Collaborate to advance documentation at Canonical
• Challenge and advance documentation understanding and best practice