About the role
Polars
Polars is the next generation of DataFrames. We don’t take the easy route and build from the ground up, controlling every element allows us to create a superior solution. Our open-source implementation is one of the fastest growing data projects on GitHub and has over 30 thousand stars and 100 million downloads to date.
We believe data processing should be a seamless experience from working locally on your development machine to an enterprise production environment. There should be one framework to learn for data practitioners, removing the need for rewriting code when going to production. To make that possible, we are building a cloud platform to seamlessly bring locally developed Polars pipelines to production. We are also building a distributed engine for Polars to scale beyond the limits of a single machine, both in the cloud and on-premises.
How will you make an impact?
You will be working on fundamental components of both the Polars Cloud platform and the Polars distributed query engine. Some of the things you will be working on are designing gRPC / REST api’s, leader election and failover for cluster nodes, replication of distributed query state and more. For these problems, you will cooperate closely with the cloud platform and compute engine teams.
You are familiar with Linux and can find what you need in manpages
You are proficient in async Rust (Tokio)
You are familiar with distributed systems architecture and implementation
You prefer simple solutions to complex ones, but know when complex solutions are needed
You enjoy working across different domains in a small team
Benefits
An important role in a high-growth startup allowing plenty of growth opportunities in diverse directions
Chance to work with and learn from a small strong technical team passionate about data processing and software engineering
Competitive salary
Stock option package
Flexible working hours
We're looking for someone who can join us in our Amsterdam office twice a week to collaborate with the team, drive faster development and ideation, and help build our team culture.
About Polars
Polars is an open-source, Rust-based DataFrame library and in-memory query engine designed for fast and efficient data manipulation. It provides a DataFrame API with multi-threaded, vectorized, and columnar processing, making it suitable for large-scale analytical workloads. The company, Polars BV, builds a managed compute platform to enable data scientists and engineers to run Polars at any scale without managing distributed infrastructure.
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Job details
Location
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Funding
Total raised
$25M
Last stage
Series A
Investors
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
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A meeting lands on your calendar
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