ROLE SPECIFICATION // EEKKHM•ACTIVELY_INTERVIEWINGHACKER NEWS // WHO'S HIRING FEED

Staff Engine Compiler & Optimization Architect

Polars•WEBSITE•ORIGINAL HN THREAD•REMOTE GLOBAL• Remote (Worldwide Async)
YC
Y Combinator Verified IngestionHN // WHO IS HIRING
Direct from Polars Founders • Work at a Startup Feed
ORIGINAL YC POST
Mandatory Verified Compensation & Equity Range
Guaranteed Base Salary$190k - $250kUSD / YEAR • RADICAL TRANSPARENCY
Direct Equity Grant0.5% - 1.5%STANDARD 4-YR VEST // 1-YR CLIFF
Anti-Ghosting SLA< 24 HoursHEARTBEAT VERIFIED LIVE
Production Stack Specification
RustApache ArrowSIMDPythonC++LinuxCompilers
The Engineering Mission & Technical Challenges
Polars is the lightning-fast DataFrame library written in Rust from the ground up to utilize all CPU cores and vectorized memory. Current Technical Challenges & 90-Day Deliverables: • Architect out-of-core streaming query planners executing joins and aggregations on datasets larger than physical RAM. • Optimize AVX-512 and ARM Neon SIMD kernels for string filtering, hash aggregation, and datetime parsing. • Construct distributed query compilers translating high-level Polars expressions into optimal physical execution DAGs. • Lead open-source performance benchmarking against DuckDB, Spark, and Pandas 2.0.
Transparent Interview Roadmap
1
Engine Architecture Screen45m

Screen with Ritchie Vink on vectorized execution, cache locality, and Apache Arrow memory layout.

2
Vectorized Query Planner Design60m

System design of a streaming hash join operator handling memory backpressure gracefully.

3
Paid 1-Day Trial PR1 Day

Paid trial PR ($1,200) profiling and speeding up an existing Polars execution kernel.

4
Founder Offer Lock24h

Definitive offer with guaranteed base salary and founding equity pool grant.

APPLICATION PROTOCOL: BUILDER DOSSIER