Technical Writer

DigitalOcean, the cloud for developers, is a dynamic, high-growth technology company that serves a passionate community of technologists around the world. We want to simplify cloud computing for every developer and are working on some of the most challenging and interesting problems in cloud computing.

As a Technical Writer, you will provide instructive guides on managing Linux infrastructure, installing and configuring software, and implementing best practices. This is a unique opportunity for someone who is passionate about writing, learning, and open source technologies to help us continue to expand our knowledge base for Linux users around the world.

* Producing and evaluating topic ideas for future articles * Researching to establish a working knowledge of each topic * Writing and editing articles on open-source topics for the DigitalOcean Community * Maintaining existing articles by updating content where appropriate * Providing technical and non-technical feedback to other writers * Coordinating with other team members to ensure topic coverage while avoiding overlap * Participating in Community initiatives (feature launch prep work, strategic tasks, etc.) * Assisting other teams with documentation and non-documentation tasks

**What We'll Expect From You:** * You must have excellent written and verbal English communication skills. * Experience with multiple Linux distributions * Command-line fundamentals, including the shell and standard utilities * Linux security fundamentals (users, permissions, basic network and service security, etc.) * Web and database servers * Application setup and deployment * Understands the basics of multi-server infrastructure and networking concepts **Bonus:** * Linux and BSD: Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora, Debian, Arch and Free BSD * Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, NoSQL * Web Servers: Apache, Nginx * Configuration Management/Automation: Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt, etc * Languages and Frameworks: Ruby, Python, Go, Javascript, Rails, Django, Node, etc. * CMSes: Wordpress, Joomla!, Ghost, Drupal, etc * Mail: Postfix, Sendmail, Dovecot, Exim, etc. * Miscellaneous: Git, VPN, version control, backups, DNS, logging, load balancing, security, etc. * Previous development experience or knowledge