.Senior Technical WriterSummaryAs a technical writer, you will be working as part of a team to create and maintain educational material for a large community of free and open-source software developers. Our technical community of staff and volunteers maintains and evolves MediaWiki and related software, and enhances the software experience for Wikipedia, Wikidata, and other free knowledge projects. Our technical writers work in partnership with other teams and the community at large to prioritize areas of improvement and to help build out our community of technical writers and contributors. You will contribute to Wikimedia projects by writing, editing, and managing documentation on mediawiki.Org, wikitech.Wikimedia.Org, and other wikis, and will advocate and teach standards and best practices for technical documentation. Our globally distributed team works remotely, and so can you!You are responsible for:Ensure technical documentation is clear, accurate and up-to-date and fulfills goal of expanding and supporting the developer community.Develop and lead on guidelines, templates, and best practices of both user-facing and developer documentation, covering topics like code documentation and contribution & collaboration guidelines.Produce high-quality and easy-to-understand documentation for a variety of engineering projects, API documentation, FAQs, user guides, standard operating procedures, etc.Coordinate and work with teams and community volunteers to obtain an in-depth understanding of documentation needs and requirements.Expand the community of writers contributing to public documentation through teaching and sharing best practices, guidelines and tutorials.Communicate widely and frequently to a wide audience of technical volunteers and staff via mailing list, IRC, and wikis.Share our values, respect our code of conduct, adhere to our team norms, and work in accordance with all three.Skills and Experience:Extensive experience in technical writing for software or infrastructure projects and creating technical documentation for developers.Experience with software development, code documentation and/or engineering best practices.Experience writing documentation in markdown, wikitext, HTML or similar markup languages.Qualities that are important to us:Ability to make complex technical concepts understandable for others.Strong verbal and written communication and presentation skills.Strong research skills (as there will not always be developer support for some of the issues that need to be documented).Strong interpersonal skills, with track record of modeling good social and development practices.Creative and highly motivated to serve diverse, multilingual and international communities.Comfortable in a collaborative, consensus-oriented and open environment.Comfortable using a wide variety of communication/collaboration tools including wikis, mailing lists, and IRC