Technical Author multiple roles and seniority levels
CanonicalRemote
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Posted April 27, 2026
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Job Description
A Technical Author at Canonical is responsible for creating, maintaining, and improving technical documentation across various teams and products, collaborating with colleagues and engaging with user communities to enhance the quality and effectiveness of software and internal documentation.
Key Responsibilities
- Create, maintain, and improve software and internal documentation
- Collaborate with team members to produce effective documentation contributions
- Influence product development by providing expert feedback on function and design
- Engage with user communities to ensure documentation meets their needs
- Standardize content structure, presentation, style, and language across products
- Advance documentation best practices and contribute to the documentation discipline
Requirements
- Hold a BSc BA degree or equivalent.
- Be familiar with Linux, working on the command line, Git, Sphinx, and reStructuredText.
- Demonstrate technical curiosity and fascination with software technology and its challenges.
- Have demonstrable documentation skills, insight, and enthusiasm.
- Have experience of software development contexts.
- Be an excellent collaborator and communicator.
- Care deeply about functional written communication.
- Be a technical writer with a programmer’s mindset, or a programmer with a record of producing excellent documentation.
- Have a record of community engagement in open-source software, documentation, research, or other disciplines.
- Be sympathetic to the needs and challenges of open-source software and its communities.
- Be able to travel twice a year for up to two weeks for events.
Benefits & Perks
Annual compensation review
Performance-driven annual bonus or commission
Additional benefits reflecting company values
Distributed work environment with twice-yearly in-person team sprints
Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
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
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