Senior Backend Engineer - User Data

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 you'll 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 and much more

To thrive in this role, you'll need:
6+ years of experience in object oriented programming and infrastructure development
BSc in computer science or equivalent (please include GPA)
Strong end-to-end ownership mindset
Proven experience and strong understanding of big data systems, including hands-on work with a variety of database technologies
Proven experience as a tech leader, including mentoring and guiding of others
Production systems experience
Product driven and business oriented
Strong analytical skills
Fearlessness to dive into what you don't 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 and 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 and big data distributed DB (Vertica / Cassandra / ES / BQ) Experienced with Spark / HDFS

How you'll make an impact:

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

Design, develop, and address scalability challenges in our user data pipeline and identity graph, ensuring efficient handling of high-throughput, high-performance systems
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 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 and managing user data signals
Driving Taboola's data advantage by leveraging real-time user signals to uncover intent and boost key business performance metrics
Develop a complete user identities graph and find deterministic and 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 and experiments over audiences
Understand and 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, 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, 401k, 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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