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Entry Level
Full Time
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Requirements
- •Is an excellent collaborator and communicator
- •Cares deeply about functional written communication
- •Is a technical writer with a programmer’s mindset, or a programmer with a record of producing excellent documentation
- •Has a record of community engagement, in open-source software, documentation, research or other disciplines
- •Is sympathetic to the needs and challenges of open-source software and its communities
- •Demonstrates technical curiosity, and is fascinated by software technology and its challenges
- •Has demonstrable documentation skills, insight and enthusiasm
- •Has experience of software development contexts
- •Is familiar with: Linux, working on the command line, Git, documentation markup languages (reStructuredText, MyST)
- •Holds a BSc/BA degree or equivalent
- •Is able to travel twice a year for up to two weeks for events
What You'll Do
- •Create, maintain and improve software and other documentation
- •Work with your team members, to help them make effective documentation contributions
- •Influence the development of Canonical products and services, as an expert user who has important opinions about function and design
- •Engage with user communities to ensure that our documentation meets their needs
- •Encourage and support community engagement in and contribution to documentation
- •Help standardise the structure, presentation, style and language of content across products
- •Collaborate with documentation peers to advance the state of the art in documentation at Canonical
- •Challenge and advance documentation understanding and best-practice, as part of a disciplinary team
Nice to Have
- •Deep technical domain knowledge
- •Open-source community leadership and management
- •User-experience, interaction or visual design
Benefits
- •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
About Canonical
Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, delivers trusted open source for everyone and provides security, support and services to enterprises.
London, UK
1000 - 5000
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