For over a decade now, OpenNebula Systems has been leading the development of the European open source technology that helps organizations around the world to manage their corporate data centers and build their Enterprise Clouds.
If you want to join an established leader in the cloud infrastructure industry and the global open source community, keep reading, because you can now join a team of exceptionally passionate and talented colleagues whose mission is to help the world's leading enterprises to implement their next-generation edge and cloud strategies. We are hiring!
Since 2019, and thanks to the support from the European Commission, OpenNebula Systems has been leading the edge computing innovation in Europe, investing heavily in research and open source development, and playing a key role in strategic EU initiatives such as the IPCEI-CIS and the “European Alliance for Industrial Data, Edge and Cloud”.
We are currently looking for a Technical Writer to come and join us in Europe as part of our new team developing the next generation management platform for the Cloud-Edge Computing Continuum.
Job Description
The Technical Writer will lead the team effort to create, maintain and improve the product documentation that serves the needs of the OpenNebula Community, embracing the principles of Open Source and the Diátaxis documentation framework. You will have a broad impact on—and responsibility for—the quality of the user experience with the product, and will contribute towards the long-term success of the OpenNebula project itself.
As a Technical Writer, you will collaborate with software developers, product managers, community members, other documentation authors, and technical support engineers to develop clear documentation for complex technical topics. You’ll be part of our effort to establish documentation as a first-class engineering discipline.
What you will do
- Coordination, maintenance and lifecycle management of OpenNebula technical documentation (docs.opennebula.io), in order to keep this resource clear and in sync with our software development activities.
- Create, in coordination with the development team, the Release Notes of the new OpenNebula versions.
- Coordinate and maintenance of Tutorials, User Guides and White Papers to help improve user experience.
- Work closely with the Content & Community team to help them deliver White Papers, coordinating the content contributions, as well as maintenance.
- Collaborate with the technical teams to improve and elaborate better Knowledge Base articles for customers.
- Support our EU-funded innovation projects by helping in the edition and production of their Deliverables.
- Challenge and advance documentation understanding and best-practices across the whole company.
- Help standardize the structure, presentation, style and language of technical content across products.
- Lead and engage the OpenNebula Community to coordinate efforts around localization, ensuring coherence and quality.
What you will bring
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science or related field.
- Proven experience of content production associated with a technology product (documentation, blog, articles, etc).
- You care deeply about functional written communication.
- You are 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.
- You are sympathetic to the needs and challenges of open source projects and its communities.
- You have technical curiosity and are fascinated by technology and its challenges.
- Demonstrable documentation skills, insight and enthusiasm.
- Professional experience in software development contexts (e.g. with Git, markup languages, etc.)
- Has excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
What's in it for me?
Some of our benefits and perks vary depending on location and employment type, but we are proud to provide employees with the following:
- Competitive compensation package and flexible remuneration: Meals, Transport, Nursery/Childcare
- Customized workstation (macOS, Windows, Linux)
- Private health insurance
- Paid time off: Holidays, Personal Time, Sick Time, Parental leave
- Afternoon-off working day every friday and during summer
- Remote company with bright HQ centrally located in Madrid; offices in Boston (USA), Brussels (Belgium) and Brno (Czech Republic); and access to office space near your location when needed. During the first year, for onboarding purposes, and for participation on certain projects, employees should be able to attend events and face-to-face meetings in our Madrid offices and be available to travel to Brussels and maybe other European cities. All employees are also required to attend our company-wide face-to-face all-hands meetings twice a year.
- Healthy work-life balance: We encourage the right for Digital Disconnecting and promote harmony between employees personal and professional lives
- Flexible hiring options: Full Time/Part Time, Employee (Spain/USA) / Contractor (other locations)
- We are building an awesome, Engineering First Culture and your opinion matters: Thrive in the high-energy environment of a young company where openness, collaboration, risk-taking, and continuous growth are valued
- Be exposed to a broad technology ecosystem. We encourage learning and researching new technologies and methods as part of your everyday duties
