Taboola Senior Software Engineer Audience Extension 

Israel, Tel Aviv District, Tel Aviv-Yafo 

594094610

What are some of the things you do on a day-to-day basis?

• Develop one of the largest real time big data operation in the world to support over 40TB of new data every day
• Have end to end ownership: Design, build, ship, measure and maintain our frontend and backend services
• Collaborate with the brightest software engineers team members
• Influence directly on the way billions of people discover the internet
• Develop at unimaginable scale, serving hundreds of thousands of requests per second
• Work on innovative projects that are the next growth engines for Taboola

Here are some of the things software developers in our group did in the last several months:

• A unique data pipeline for managing RTB requests at scale
• An algorithmic model to predict if a given Real-Time impression is valuable to Taboola
• A smart gateway that ingests hundreds of thousands of requests per second for a single instance
• An A/B tests system to explore variations and experiments
• And many more…

Our Tech Stack:

Java, Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, Cassandra, Vertica, MySQL, HDFS, BigQuery, Docker, Linux, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, Airflow

• 6+ years programming experience in Java or equivalent Object-Oriented language
  (preferably Java 8+Spring)
• Production systems understanding (system architecture of web products)
• Fearlessness to dive into what you don’t know
• Passion for solving problems, and working very close to the business
• Experience with SQL and No-SQL
• BSc in computer science or equivalent
• Willing to work intensively to gain fast results in an unknown field
• Product driven
• A pragmatic attitude toward decision-making (avoiding analysis paralysis)
• Strong analytical skills

It would be great if you also have:

• Experience developing large scale distributed systems
• Experienced with Kafka/docker/k8s
• Deep understanding with web systems (API / REST / NGINX)
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL (mysql / Vertica / Cassandra)
• Experience in Big Data tools (BQ / zeppelin etc)
• Knowledge in algorithms, data-mining and machine learning

Why Taboola?

• Taboola is the world’s leading recommendation platform reaching over 500 million daily active users. We’re growing rapidly, and have recently gone public on the NASDAQ.
• Adam Singolda, Taboola Founder and CEO says; “You can copy anything from another business but you can’t copy a company’s culture.”

  If you ask our employees what they love about Taboola they will tell you that here, they are able to discover their best professional selves, explore where they can grow to, and learn from and together with smart and talented people.

• At Taboola, we pride ourselves in making an impact on how people consume content across the world, a culture of transparency, passion, and a diverse, inclusive and friendly work environment.
• You can get to know us more by visiting our , , and social media channels; , , and