Remote Technical Author Job in Wichita, KS Canonical

Who you are

• Cares deeply about functional written communication
• Has a record of community engagement in open-source software or similar fields
• Demonstrates technical curiosity and a thorough understanding of software technology
• Has demonstrable documentation skills, insight, and enthusiasm
• Experienced with Linux, command line operations, application deployment, system operations, Git, and documentation markup languages
• Possesses excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Holds a BSc/BA degree or equivalent
• Is able to travel twice yearly for up to two weeks

Desirables

• Deep technical knowledge
• Community leadership
• UX/interaction 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 with important opinions on its function and design
• Engage with user communities to ensure documentation meets their needs
• Encourage and support community engagement and contribution to documentation
• Help standardise the content structure, style, and presentation
• Collaborate with peers to advance documentation practices
• Challenge and advance documentation understanding and best-practice