Remote Technical Author - Ubuntu and Canonical products Job in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK Canonical

Who you are

• Cares deeply about functional written communication
• Technical writer with a programmer's mindset or programmer with excellent documentation skills
• Record of community engagement in open-source software or related disciplines
• Sympathetic to open-source software and its communities
• Demonstrates technical curiosity and excellence in documentation skills
• Experience in software development contexts, familiar with Linux, Git, documentation markup languages
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Holds a BSc/BA degree or equivalent
• 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

• Set a standard of excellence in technical documentation practices
• Lead the team effort to create and maintain product documentation
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop clear documentation for complex technical topics
• Establish documentation as a first-class engineering discipline