Remote Technical Author Job in San Bernardino, CA 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

• Deep technical domain knowledge
• Open-source community leadership and management
• User-experience, interaction or visual design

What the job involves

• Collaborate with documentation peers to advance the state of the art in documentation at Canonical
• Challenge and advance documentation understanding and best-practice, as part of a disciplinary team

Application process

• All applications and candidates are handled through this one entry-point. We'll be able to discuss seniority levels, suitable teams and more later in the process.