Technical Author multiple roles and seniority levels
CanonicalRemote
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Posted January 20, 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 the documentation and overall user experience.
Key Responsibilities
- Create, maintain, and improve software and internal documentation
- Collaborate with team members to produce effective documentation contributions
- Influence product development and design through expert documentation and user feedback
- 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 company's documentation discipline
Requirements
- Demonstrable documentation skills, insight and enthusiasm
- Experience of software development contexts
- Familiarity with Linux, working on the command line, Git, and documentation markup languages reStructuredText and MyST
- Hold a BSc BA degree or equivalent
- Ability 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 revisited annually and more often for graduates and associates to recognize outstanding performance
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