Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure at Taboola

<p><strong>Realize your potential by joining the leading performance-driven advertising company! </strong><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As a <strong>Senior </strong><strong>Software Engineer</strong> on the <strong>Infrastructure Engineering</strong> <strong>R&amp;D group</strong>, you’ll play a vital role in d</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">eveloping one of the largest real time high scale operation in the world to support over 1.4B users, &gt;500,000 requests / second, 140TB of new data every day.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>To thrive in this role, you'll need:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Experience developing large scale distributed systems</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Deep understanding of strong Computer Science fundamentals: object-oriented design, data structures systems, applications programming and multi threading programming</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">5+ years programming experience in Java or equivalent Object-Oriented language</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Production systems understanding</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Experience with SQL and No-SQL</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Highly Proficient in Linux environment</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Proven ability to work effectively across multiple teams</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">BS.c in computer science or equivalent experience</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Bonus points if you have:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Experience in Big Data tools</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Knowledge in algorithms, data-mining and machine learning</span></li> </ul> <h3><strong>How you’ll make an impact:</strong></h3> <p>As a <span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Senior </strong></span><strong>Software Engineer</strong>, you’ll bring value by:</p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Develop one of the largest real time high scale operation in the world to support over 1.4B users, &gt;500,000 requests / second, 140TB of new data every day</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Have end to end ownership: Design, develop, deploy, measure and maintain our services</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Solve production issues in the framework code</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Collaborate with the brightest software engineers team members</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Influence directly on the way billions of people discover the internet</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>Here are some of the things software devs in our group did in the last several months:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rewrote part of our recommendation servers to reduce serving time p999 by &gt;40%</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rolled out custom Cassandra compaction strategy</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Created and improved Taboola’s Kafka consumer designed for very high scale</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Developed a brand new Taboola metrics pipeline, ingesting over 100B metric messages per day</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Anomaly detection engine for application metrics</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rolled out a new custom home-built Taboola authentication service</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Many more things...</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>Our Tech Stack:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Java, Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, Cassandra, Vertica, MySQL, HDFS, BigQuery, Docker, Linux, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Metrictank, Grafana, Airflow, Redis</span></p> <p><a href="https://discover.taboola.com/taboola-infrastructure-engineering/" target="_blank"><strong>This is us!</strong></a></p> <p><strong>You will work with:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The people who wrote the first lines of code in Taboola (and many many more lines after that)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The proud owner of a beer brewery</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">People who are deeply familiar with the code of Kafka, Cassandra, AirFlow, Prometheus and Spark (including committing back)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Famous internal Taboola hackathon winners</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The designers and implementers of a offheap, zero GC, Custom Kafka Producer which cumulatively sends ~100B messages / day</span></li> </ul> <h3><strong>Why Taboola?</strong></h3> <p>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:</p> <ul> <li>Adam Singolda, Taboola Founder and CEO says; “You can copy anything from another business but you can’t copy a company’s culture.</li> <li><strong>Well-being:</strong> Enjoy comprehensive benefits (health, etc.), a fully stocked kitchen, and location-specific perks (gym partnerships, parking).</li> <li><strong>Flexibility: </strong>We offer a hybrid work schedule with 3 days in-office with an option to come in more often if desired.</li> <li><strong>Work with some of the biggest names: </strong>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.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Ready to realize your potential?</strong></p> <p>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.-</p> <p>Learn more about #TaboolaLife on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?fetchDeterministicClustersOnly=true&amp;heroEntityKey=urn%3Ali%3Aorganization%3A128707&amp;keywords=taboola&amp;origin=RICH_QUERY_SUGGESTION&amp;position=2&amp;searchId=dcc8bfbb-b05c-458e-a7f1-726d30e7dd80&amp;sid=9(y&amp;spellCorrectionEnabled=false">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/taboola/">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/taboola.israel/?hl=en">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BctKkw2Vj_EOjvy24kjRKq_ZxZzmZxweIqNLQgsLtcs/edit?tab=t.0">X</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6W0hdStO0jRVYhg4ABzjRw">YouTube</a>, &amp; the <a href="https://blog.taboola.com/category/taboola-life/?_gl=1*1c2v1ec*_ga*MTI4NTM3OTcyNy4xNjkxNTA0MjA0*_ga_ERHENNM7DM*MTcxMDM1MDIwMi4yMjMuMS4xNzEwMzUwMjI5LjMzLjAuMA..">Taboola Life Blog</a>.</p> <h3><strong>About Taboola</strong></h3> <p>Taboola empowers businesses to grow through performance advertising technology that goes beyond search and social and delivers measurable outcomes at scale.</p> <p>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.<br><br></p> <p>#LI-Hybrid</p> <p><strong>#LI-SS1</strong></p>