Remote Technical Author Job in Sudbury, UK Canonical

Who you are

• Being a technical writer with a programmer's mindset or a programmer with a passion for producing excellent documentation
• Having a record of community engagement in open-source software, documentation, research, or related fields
• Demonstrating technical curiosity and enthusiasm for software technology challenges
• Possessing excellent written and verbal communication skills along with familiarity with Linux, command line operations, Git, and documentation markup languages
• Holding a BSc/BA degree or equivalent and being willing 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

What the job involves

• Joining an engineering team to lead documentation efforts for a specific Canonical product area, creating, maintaining, and improving technical documentation with a focus on user experience and long-term project success
• Collaborating with various team members to develop clear documentation for complex technical topics and establish documentation as a first-class engineering discipline
• Contributing to a disciplined team to challenge and advance documentation understanding and best practices