Realize your potential by joining the leading performance-driven advertising company!  

As a Senior User Data Engineer in the Demand group in our Tel Aviv office  youll play a vital role in developing one of the largest real time big data operations in the world to support over 40TB of new data every day.

Our Tech Stack: Java, JS, TS, Python, Reactive, Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, Cassandra, Vertica, ES, MySQL, Memcached, HDFS, Iceberg, BigQuery, Druid, Kusto, Docker, K8S, Linux, Prometheus, Grafana, Airflow

Gen AI: Cursor, Junie, GitHub Copilot, Langfuse & much more

To thrive in this role, you'll need:

• 6+ years of experience in object oriented programming & infrastructure development
• BSc in computer science or equivalent (please include GPA)
• Strong end-to-end ownership mindset
• Proven experience & strong understanding of big data systems, including hands-on work with a variety of database technologies
• Proven experience as a tech leader, including mentoring & guiding of others
• Production systems experience
• Product driven & business oriented
• Strong analytical skills
• Fearlessness to dive into what you dont know
• Passion for solving complex scaling challenge
• Willing to work intensively to gain fast results in an unknown field
• High self-learning abilities
• Excellent communication & collaboration skills to work across teams

Bonus points if you have:

Experienced developing large scale distributed systems, Experienced with Web/JS,  Experienced with Kafka / Docker / K8S, Experienced with NoSQL & big data distributed DB (Vertica / Cassandra / ES / BQ) Experienced with Spark / HDFS

How youll make an impact:

As a Senior Software Engineer, youll bring value by:

• Design, develop, & address scalability challenges in our user data pipeline & identity graph, ensuring efficient handling of high-throughput, high-performance systems
• Have end to end ownership: Design, build, ship, measure & maintain our frontend & 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 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 processing & managing user data signals
• Driving Taboolas data advantage by leveraging real-time user signals to uncover intent & boost key business performance metrics
• Develop a complete user identities graph & find deterministic & probabilistic methods to enrich it
• An algorithmic model to predict the performance potential of a specific audience
• Infrastructure to create unique audiences for advertisers based on various signals (behavioral, contextual, etc)
• An A/B tests system to explore variations & experiments over audiences
• Understand & use big data algorithms to estimate key business metrics over billions of impressions
• Build user interface using React that serve thousands of users

Why Taboola?

If you ask Taboolars what they love about working here, theyll tell you that theyve been empowered to realize their full potential while growing & learning from & with smart & talented people. Theyll also share more about:

• Adam Singolda, Taboola Founder & CEO says; You can copy anything from another business but you cant copy a companys culture.
• Well-being: Enjoy comprehensive benefits (health, 401k, etc.), a fully stocked kitchen, & location-specific perks (gym partnerships, parking).

Flexibility: We offer a hybrid work schedule with 3 days in-office with an option to come in more often if desired.Work with some of the biggest names: We work with some of the biggest names in the business. Our publisher partners include Yahoo, Conde Nast, Fox Sports, NBCU, ESPN, CBS, & E! Online. Our advertiser clients include Wells Fargo, Honda, Pinterest, Expedia & Honda.

Ready to realize your potential?

Taboola is an equal opportunity employer & we value diversity in all forms. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees & believe such an environment is critical for success. Employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, & business need.-

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About Taboola

Taboola empowers businesses to grow through performance advertising technology that goes beyond search & social & delivers measurable outcomes at scale.

Taboola works with thousands of businesses who advertise directly on Realize, Taboolas powerful ad platform, reaching approximately 600M daily active users across some of the best publishers in the world. Publishers like NBC News, Yahoo, & OEMs such as Samsung, Xiaomi & others use Taboolas technology to grow audience & revenue, enabling Realize to offer unique data, specialized algorithms, & unmatched scale.

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