Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

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

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Infrastructure Engineering R&D group, you’ll play a vital role in developing one of the largest real time high scale operation in the world to support over 1.4B users, >500,000 requests / second, 140TB of new data every day.

To Thrive In This Role, You'll Need

Experience developing large scale distributed systems

Deep understanding of strong Computer Science fundamentals: object-oriented design, data structures systems, applications programming and multi threading programming

5+ years programming experience in Java or equivalent Object-Oriented language

Production systems understanding

Experience with SQL and No-SQL

Highly Proficient in Linux environment

Proven ability to work effectively across multiple teams

BS.c in computer science or equivalent experience

Bonus Points If You Have

Experience in Big Data tools

Knowledge in algorithms, data-mining and machine learning

How You’ll Make An Impact

As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll bring value by:

Develop one of the largest real time high scale operation in the world to support over 1.4B users, >500,000 requests / second, 140TB of new data every day

Have end to end ownership: Design, develop, deploy, measure and maintain our services

Solve production issues in the framework code

Collaborate with the brightest software engineers team members

Influence directly on the way billions of people discover the internet

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

Rewrote part of our recommendation servers to reduce serving time p999 by >40%

Rolled out custom Cassandra compaction strategy

Created and improved Taboola’s Kafka consumer designed for very high scale

Developed a brand new Taboola metrics pipeline, ingesting over 100B metric messages per day

Anomaly detection engine for application metrics

Rolled out a new custom home-built Taboola authentication service

Many more things...

Our Tech Stack

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

This is us!

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

Why Taboola?

About

If you ask Taboolars what they love about working here, they’ll tell you that they’ve been empowered to realize their full potential while growing and learning from and with smart and talented people. They’ll also share more about:

Adam Singolda, Taboola Founder and CEO says; “You can copy anything from another business but you can’t copy a company’s culture.

Well-being: Enjoy comprehensive benefits (health, etc.), a fully stocked kitchen, and 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, and E! Online. Our advertiser clients include Wells Fargo, Honda, Pinterest, Expedia and Honda.

Ready to realize your potential?

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

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About Taboola

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

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

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