Technical Author - Ubuntu and Canonical products

What You'll Do on a Regular Basis

1. Create, maintain and improve software documentation
2. Work with engineering team members, to help them make effective documentation contributions
3. Influence the development of the product, as an expert user of the product, who has important opinions about its function and design
4. Engage with user communities to ensure that our documentation meets their needs
5. Encourage and support community engagement in and contribution to documentation
6. Help standardise the structure, presentation, style and language of content across products
7. Collaborate with documentation peers to advance the state of the art in documentation at Canonical
8. Challenge and advance documentation understanding and best-practice, as part of a disciplinary team

Our Best Candidate

1. Cares deeply about functional written communication
2. Is a technical writer with a programmer's mindset, or a programmer with a record of producing excellent documentation
3. Has a record of community engagement, in open-source software, documentation, research or other disciplines
4. Is sympathetic to the needs and challenges of open-source software and its communities
5. Demonstrates technical curiosity, and is fascinated by software technology and its challenges
6. Has demonstrable documentation skills, insight and enthusiasm
7. Has experience of software development contexts; is familiar with:
   - Linux
   - working on the command line
   - application deployment
   - system operations
   - infrastructure management
   - Git
   - documentation markup languages
8. Has excellent written and verbal communication skills
9. Holds a BSc/BA degree or equivalent
10. Is able to travel twice a year for up to two weeks for events

Additional Skills That You Might Also Bring

1. Deep technical domain knowledge
2. Open-source community leadership and management
3. User-experience, interaction or visual design

What We Offer You

We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognise outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus. We provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.

Our Benefits Include:
- Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
- Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events