Staff Software Engineer

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

As a Staff Software Engineer in the Advertiser Solutions Core group in our Tel Aviv Office, you'll be a technical leader and key contributor to our product and engineering roadmaps. You will influence critical decisions that affect millions of users daily, setting the technical direction for one of the largest real-time big data operations in the world, supporting over 140TB of new data every day.

To Thrive In This Role, You'll Need

• 7+ years of programming experience in Java or an equivalent Object-Oriented language.
• Deep understanding of strong Computer Science fundamentals: object-oriented design, data structures, complex systems, applications programming, and multithreading.
• Proven experience architecting, leading, and initiating complex, large-scale technical projects on distributed systems, demonstrating significant impact across multiple teams and groups.
• A proven ability to lead complex technical decisions and a passion for mentoring other engineers (including seniors), elevating the technical bar for the entire group.
• Track record of acting as a technical "go-to" person, building consensus, and driving cross-team alignment on architectural and design choices.
• Experience and knowledge of Big Data tools, SQL, and data analysis.
• Generative AI Coding tools enthusiast.
• B.Sc in Computer Science or equivalent.

How You'll Make An Impact
As a Staff Software Engineer, you are a "force multiplier" who brings value by:

• Acting as a key technical leader for the group, guiding the architecture and design of complex, business-critical systems that empower Taboola's advertisers to manage their budgets and optimize performance.
• Driving development by being hands-on, personally writing code for the most complex and critical system components and setting a high bar for code quality and best practices.
• Driving the technical strategy for building highly scalable and reliable solutions to process and analyze vast amounts of data, enabling actionable insights for advertisers.
• Leading and mentoring engineers working on a large-scale, high-throughput recommendations system, influencing the way billions of people discover the internet.
• Making high-stakes architectural decisions for one of the largest real-time big data operations in the world, responsible for over 140TB of new data every day.
• Fostering a culture of technical excellence and end-to-end ownership; setting standards for how we design, build, ship, measure, and maintain our products at scale.
• Serving as a key technical partner to product managers and other engineering leaders, translating complex business goals into a tangible, multi-quarter technical roadmap.

Our Tech Stack
Java, Spark, Kafka, HDFS, K8S, Helm, Docker, Vertica, MySQL, BigQuery, Airflow, Prometheus, Grafana, Cassandra, Memcached, Druid.

Why Taboola?
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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.
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• 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: 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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