Senior Software Engineer, Audience Extension

Curious about what it's like to work at the world's number 1 discovery platform as a Software Engineer in the Audience Extension team? We're glad you asked!

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

What are the skills a good Software Engineer needs to have?

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 company website, careers site, Taboola Life blog and social media channels; Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn

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Sounds good, how do I apply?

It's easy, submit your CV by clicking the "Apply" button below.

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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