Technical Author multiple roles and seniority levels
CanonicalRemote
Full Time
Posted December 1, 2025
Not Specified
Remote
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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
- Be a technical writer with a programmer's mindset, or a programmer with a record of producing excellent documentation.
- Have demonstrable documentation skills, insight, and enthusiasm.
- Have experience of software development contexts.
- Be familiar with Linux, working on the command line, Git, documentation markup languages reStructuredText, MyST.
- Hold a BSc, BA degree or equivalent.
- Be able to travel twice a year for up to two weeks for events.
Benefits & Perks
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
Compensation is based on location, experience, and performance, with annual revisits and performance-driven bonuses or commissions
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