Remote Technical Author Job in Seattle, WA Canonical

Who you are

• Cares deeply about functional written communication
• Has a record of community engagement in open-source software documentation research or other disciplines
• Demonstrates technical curiosity and is fascinated by software technology and its challenges
• Experienced with Linux command line application deployment system operations and infrastructure management
• Proficient in Git and documentation markup languages
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Holds a BSc/BA degree or equivalent

Desirables

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

What the job involves

• Create, maintain and improve software documentation
• Work with engineering team members to make effective documentation contributions
• Engage with user communities to ensure documentation meets their needs
• Encourage community engagement 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 art in documentation at Canonical
• Challenge and advance documentation understanding and best-practice as part of a disciplinary team