About the company

Swarm is a system of peer-to-peer networked nodes that create a decentralised storage and communication service. The system is economically self-sustaining due to a built-in incentive system enforced through smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain.
Swarm aspires to shape the future towards a self-sovereign global society and permissionless open markets. On Swarm, applications can run autonomously yet securely in a planetary-scale deployment and execution environment.

Job description

Swarm is a system of peer-to-peer networked nodes that create a decentralised storage and communication service. The system is economically self-sustaining due to a built-in incentive system enforced through smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain.
Swarm aspires to shape the future towards a self-sovereign global society and permissionless open markets. On Swarm, applications can run autonomously yet securely in a planetary-scale deployment and execution environment.

The storage layer of FairOS, the Decentralised File System(dfs) uses Swarm as the base storage thereby inheriting all the benefits of Swarm. On top of that, it builds other storage business logic, to expose things needed for an application to run. Think of Swarm as the device driver of the hard disk inside your laptop and FairOs-dfs as the Ext4 file system and other databases that run on top of it, except that FairOS-dfs does this for a group of computers instead of one.

The Decentralized File System(dfs) is a stateless layer over Swarm. It uses the building blocks provided by Swarm and exposes high level storage functions like:
Creation of Users
Logical Drives / Pods
File system
Key Value Database (like levelDB)
Document Database (like mongoDB)
Permission Management
Payments and Charging

FairOS-dfs can be used along with Swarm to enable web 3.0 Dapps. The following are some of the use cases that it can be used:
Personal data store (like de-centralised dropbox)
Distributed Application data store (ex: email app, photo app, content management system, code hub, video app etc.)
Data sharing with everyone over the internet (wikipedia, Open Street Map, Ethereum transactions etc.)
Fairdrive protocol aims to be a set of specifications and reference implementations with 6 milestones. The first 5 are about creating a web3 ecosystem and utilizing the potential of Ethereum Swarm. The last planned step is about tackling integrations with other P2P and web3 systems.

Your role

Documenting FairOS-dfs and maintaining documentation to high usability standards, this includes but is not limited to:
base data structures
business-logic
authentication
feeds
Helping with or (if JS experienced) directly working on porting FairOS-dfs features to Javascript
Helping with or (if JS experienced) directly working on porting FairOS-dfs/Bee integration features to Javascript
Documenting Bee features in relation to FairOS-dfs
Contributing to Fairdrive protocol proposal writing
FairOS-dfs maintenance
Implementing Go reference implementations of Fairdrive protocol

Your profile

Proficiency in Golang
Knowledgeable about Swarm
Experience in writing technical documentation
Ideally have knowledge of data structures, formal computer science background
Ideally knowledgeable in Javascript

We appreciate

A passionate open-source contributor
Experience with libp2p
Good grasp of distributed systems
Acquaintance with cryptographic concepts
Knowledge of Kubernetes, Grafana, Jaeger and OpenTracing

Swarm offers

Competitive compensation
An open, flat and transparent work environment
The opportunity to be part of a diverse and ambitious remote team
Regular team gatherings and other activities
Flexible working hours and remote work