Realize your potential by joining the leading performance-driven advertising company!
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll be instrumental in building and optimizing our core infrastructure for managing RTB requests at scale, one of the biggest revenue driven operations in the company.
To thrive in this role, you’ll need:
- 5+ 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
Bonus points if you 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
How you’ll make an impact:
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll bring value by:
- 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
Why Taboola?
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 location-specific perks.
- 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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