Senior Software Engineer Infrastructure

Realize your potential by joining the leading performancedriven advertising company!

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Infrastructure Engineering R&D group youll play a vital role in developing one of the largest real time high scale operation in the world to support over 1.4B users >500000 requests / second 140TB of new data every day.

To thrive in this role youll need:

• Experience developing large scale distributed systems
• Deep understanding of strong Computer Science fundamentals: objectoriented design data structures systems applications programming and multi threading programming
• 5 years programming experience in Java or equivalent ObjectOriented language
• Production systems understanding
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL
• 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 datamining and machine learning

How youll make an impact:

As a Senior Software Engineer youll bring value by:

• Develop one of the largest real time high scale operation in the world to support over 1.4B users >500000 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 Taboolas 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 homebuilt 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

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

• Adam Singolda Taboola Founder and CEO says; You can copy anything from another business but you cant copy a companys culture.
• Wellbeing: Enjoy comprehensive benefits (health 401k etc. a fully stocked kitchen and locationspecific perks (gym partnerships parking).
• Flexibility: We offer a hybrid work schedule with 3 days inoffice 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 Taboolas 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 Taboolas technology to grow audience and revenue enabling Realize to offer unique data specialized algorithms and unmatched scale.

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