Senior Backend Engineer - User Data
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Job Description
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 youll 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 youll 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 dont 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 youll make an impact:
As a Senior Software Engineer youll 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 Taboolas 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 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 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 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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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
