Rust Systems Engineer: Performance & Optimization

Rustify; Netherlands; Remote; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Polars is seeking a Software Engineer for Performance Polars in the Netherlands. You will help optimize the query engines and drive low-level performance enhancements in a small, autonomous team.

We value Rust proficiency, strong systems programming fundamentals, and hands-on profiling/optimization experience. This onsite role offers direct impact on millions of daily queries within an active open-source project.

Qualifications

• Experience with a low level programming language (Rust preferred).
• Strong fundamentals in systems programming.
• Experience with profiling and optimization techniques.

Responsibilities

• Improve the performance of the query engines within Polars.
• Discuss and implement optimization techniques with the compute team.
• Contribute autonomous, responsible work in a small team.

Skills

Rust

Systems programming

Profiling

Team autonomy

Job description

Polars is seeking a Software Engineer for Performance Polars in the Netherlands. You will help optimize the query engines and drive low-level performance enhancements in a small, autonomous team.

We value Rust proficiency, strong systems programming fundamentals, and hands-on profiling/optimization experience. This onsite role offers direct impact on millions of daily queries within an active open-source project.