Technical Author — Remote Product Documentation Lead

Canonical Ltd.; Dublin; Remote; EUR 65,000 - 93,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Distributed work environment

Learning budget USD 2,000 per year

Annual compensation review

Maternity and paternity leave

Employee Assistance Programme

Travel opportunities

Job summary

Canonical is seeking a Technical Author to lead documentation across engineering, business operations and beyond. You will combine clear technical writing with deep subject‑matter knowledge and collaborate with teams to raise the standard of documentation.

You'll work with the Diátaxis approach to documentation and help elevate Canonical's documentation practice across products and open‑source projects, while contributing as part of a global, remote team.

Qualifications

• Excellent collaborator and communicator.
• Cares deeply about functional written communication.
• Technical writer with a programmer’s mindset.
• Record of community engagement in open‑source software or related fields.
• Familiar with Linux, command line, Git, Sphinx, reStructuredText.

Responsibilities

• Create, maintain and improve software and other documentation.
• Collaborate with team members to contribute effective documentation.
• Influence product and service development with documentation expertise.
• Engage with user communities to ensure documentation meets needs.
• Support community engagement and contribution to documentation.
• Help standardise structure, presentation, style and language across products.
• Collaborate with peers to advance documentation best-practice across Canonical.

Skills

Collaborator

Communicator

Technical writer

Programmer mindset

Community engagement

Linux familiarity

Command line

Git

Sphinx

reStructuredText

Technical curiosity

Education

BSc/BA degree or equivalent

Tools

Git

Sphinx

reStructuredText

Linux

Job description

Canonical is seeking a Technical Author to lead documentation across engineering, business operations and beyond. You will combine clear technical writing with deep subject‑matter knowledge and collaborate with teams to raise the standard of documentation.

You'll work with the Diátaxis approach to documentation and help elevate Canonical's documentation practice across products and open‑source projects, while contributing as part of a global, remote team.