Documentation platform engineer
at Canonical

At Canonical, we need another documentation platform engineer to support our ambitions to elevate standards and results in software documentation.

You'll work on tools, infrastructure and applications - existing ones and new ones that you will help design and develop to solve problems we have in external and internal documentation.

There'll be problems and solutions we haven't even thought of yet, and you will be key to their discovery and invention. You won't just help implement documentation tooling best practices, you will help elevate and develop them. It's a role in which you can turn ideas into experiments, and experiments into real results.

You'll work closely with Canonical's global head of documentation practice, and our team of technical authors (currently 30+ and growing rapidly). You'll also have a foot in our web engineering team, able to draw upon a substantial body of technical expertise and collaboration. Amongst your immediate colleagues will be a more junior documentation platform engineer, whom you will guide and support.

For this role you will need a lively sense of collaboration and cross-disciplinary engagement. The more documentation work you have done yourself and the better you understand the challenges of creating and maintaining software documentation, the better. We also care about accessibility, standards and design thinking. We value commitment to open-source software and communities.

Much of your work will be open-source. You'll work on software that others in the industry will be able to benefit from and contribute to.

For this role, you need to apply via our Web developer advertisement. When you apply, make sure that you indicate that you are interest in the Documentation platform engineer position - what we are looking for in the documentation role is slightly different from our other web developer roles.

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Please don't hesitate to email me directly with any questions. However I do not wish to hear from any recruiters.