As a Software Engineer in the Infrastructure Engineering R&D group, you will be instrumental in developing and maintaining one of the largest real-time high-scale operations in the world. You’ll have end-to-end ownership over our services, collaborating with a team of bright software engineers to directly influence how billions of people discover the internet.
What skills and qualifications do I need?
For this role, it is essential that you have:
- 5+ years of programming experience in Java or equivalent Object-Oriented language
- Experience developing large-scale distributed systems
- Deep understanding of strong Computer Science fundamentals including object-oriented design, data structures, systems, applications programming, and multithreading programming
- Production systems understanding
- Experience with SQL and No-SQL databases
- High proficiency in a Linux environment
- Proven ability to work effectively across multiple teams
- BS.c in computer science or equivalent experience
Nice to have:
- Experience in Big Data tools
- Knowledge in algorithms, data mining, and machine learning
As a Software Engineer, you will:
- Develop and maintain one of the largest real-time high-scale operations in the world, supporting over 1.4B users and >500,000 requests per second, with 150TB of new data every day
- Own the end-to-end process: design, develop, deploy, measure, and maintain our services
- Solve production issues in the framework code
- Collaborate closely with a team of bright software engineers
- Directly influence the way billions of people discover the internet
- Roll out custom solutions such as Cassandra compaction strategy, Kafka consumer, and metrics pipeline Implement anomaly detection engines and authentication services
Our Tech Stack:
Java, Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, Cassandra, Vertica, MySQL, HDFS, BigQuery, Docker, Linux, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Metrictank, Grafana, Airflow, Redis
You will work with:
- The people who wrote the first lines of code in Taboola (and many many more lines after that)
- The proud owner of a beer brewery
- People who are deeply familiar with the code of Kafka, Cassandra, AirFlow, Prometheus and Spark (including committing back)
- Famous internal Taboola hackathon winners
- The designers and implementers of a offheap, zero GC, Custom Kafka Producer which cumulatively sends ~100B messages / day
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