Remote Technical Author Job in Syracuse, NY Canonical

Who you are

• Cares deeply about functional written communication.
• Has a record of community engagement and demonstrates technical curiosity.
• Familiar with Linux, command line operations, application deployment, system operations, infrastructure management, Git, and documentation markup languages.
• Holds a Bachelor's degree or equivalent, and has excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• 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 from a user expert's perspective.
• Engage with user communities to ensure documentation meets their needs.
• Encourage and support community engagement and contribution to documentation.
• Standardize the structure, presentation, style, and language of content across products.
• Collaborate with documentation peers to advance documentation practices.