Senior Backend Engineer User Data

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

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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 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 challenges
• Willingness 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:

• Experience developing large scale distributed systems
• Experience with Web/JS
• Experience with Kafka / Docker / K8S
• Experience with NoSQL and big data distributed DB (Vertica / Cassandra / ES / BQ)
• Experience with Spark / HDFS

How youll make an impact:

As a Senior Software Engineer, youll bring value by:

• Designing, developing, and addressing scalability challenges in our user data pipeline and identity graph, ensuring efficient handling of high-throughput, high-performance systems
• Having end-to-end ownership: Design, build, ship, measure, and maintain our frontend and backend services
• Collaborating with the brightest software engineers team members
• Influencing directly on the way billions of people discover the internet
• Developing at unimaginable scale, serving thousands of requests per second
• Working 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
• Developing a complete user identities graph and finding 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
• Understanding and using big data algorithms to estimate key business metrics over billions of impressions
• Building user interface using React that serves 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 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.

Learn more about #TaboolaLife on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube, & the Taboola Life Blog.

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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Locations - Tel Aviv, Israel

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