Senior Software Engineer

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

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Dynamic Creative Optimization team in our Budapest office youll play a vital role in building and optimizing the large-scale infrastructure that powers one of Taboolas revenue-driving systems. Youll design and develop highly scalable backend services that process hundreds of thousands of real-time requests per second while enabling intelligent decision-making for one of the worlds largest advertising marketplaces. Youll own complex engineering challenges end-to-end and directly influence products that reach hundreds of millions of users every day.

To thrive in this role youll need:

• 5 years of backend software engineering experience developing production systems using Java or another object-oriented programming language (preferably Java 8).
• Experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems and high-performance backend services.
• Strong experience with SQL and NoSQL databases in production environments.
• Solid understanding of web architectures APIs distributed systems and scalable system design.
• Experience with Kafka Docker Kubernetes Jenkins or other large-scale data technologies.
• . in Computer Science or an equivalent technical degree.

Bonus points if you have:

• Solid programming skills in Python
• Experience designing and operating telemetry metrics collection and alerting stacks at scale (Prometheus Grafana ELK/logging).
• Practical background in optimizing infrastructure costs and resource efficiency across cloud and on-prem.
• Knowledge of machine learning algorithms data mining or real-time bidding systems.
• Experience with Spark or HDFS.

How youll make an impact:

• Design build and optimize backend infrastructure supporting one of Taboolas largest real-time data platforms.
• Own features end-to-end from architecture and implementation through deployment monitoring and continuous improvement.
• Develop highly scalable services processing hundreds of thousands of requests per second and tens of terabytes of new data daily.
• Collaborate closely with experienced software engineers to solve complex distributed systems challenges.
• Build innovative platforms that improve real-time decision-making experimentation and marketplace performance.
• Drive technical excellence while influencing products that impact billions of content recommendations across the open web.
• Design and maintain monitoring and alerting setups to spot and address system health issues before they impact users.

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.

Well-being: Enjoy comprehensive benefits (health 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: Our publisher partners include Yahoo Conde Nast Fox Sports NBCU ESPN CBS and E! Online. Our advertiser clients include Wells Fargo Honda Pinterest and Expedia.

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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