Job Summary
An open source software development company is in need of a Remote Open Source Software Technical Documentation Editor.
Must be able to:
- Use your creativity in communicating complex topics in approachable, engaging, technically accurate, and consistent ways
- Work with our marketing team to ensure we are using appropriate tools to power our documentation that consider contributions from several writers, content searchability, SEO
- Work with text markup such as Markdown, Restructured Text, HTML, or XML using various GUI tools and text editors
Applicants must meet the following qualifications:
- 3+ years of experience as a developmental and line editor of technical documentation
- Experience having managed multiple versions of documentation for multiple projects using a version control system (Git)
- Proven knowledge of technical concepts in the open source space, preferably MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Linux, etc
- Undergraduate or postgraduate degree in English, Instructional Design, Computer Science, or related studies, or equivalent experience
- Ability to strike a balance between creating our own content vs referencing others but in as consistent a manner as possible across the product suite
- Ability to create and own our technical documentation style guide
