Senior Software Engineer

Realize your potential by joining the leading performance-driven advertising company! As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll play a vital role in establishing one of Taboola’s newest and strategic growth domains- empowering advertisers and partners to independently build, optimize, and scale their campaigns. 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, Claude, GitHub Copilot, Langfuse and much more To thrive in this role, you'll need: 5+ years of experience in Java, infrastructure development, and production-grade systems, with strong end-to-end ownership. Strong big data expertise, including hands-on work with diverse databases, analytical thinking, and a passion for scaling challenges. Proven technical leadership, with experience mentoring engineers and collaborating effectively across teams. Product- and business-driven mindset, with high self-learning abilities and confidence to dive into new domains. High-impact execution, demonstrating adaptability, accountability, and the drive to deliver results in complex environments. Bonus points if you have: Proven experience building and scaling large-scale distributed systems, including Web/JavaScript technologies, Kafka, Docker, and Kubernetes.Strong background in big data platforms, with hands-on experience in NoSQL and distributed databases (Vertica, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, BigQuery), as well as Spark and HDFS. How you’ll make an impact: Design, develop, and address scalability challenges in our 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 Why Taboola? 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: Adam Singolda, Taboola Founder and CEO says; “You can copy anything from another business but you can’t copy a company’s culture. Well-being: We offer a hybrid work schedule with 3 days in-office with an option to come in more often if desired. 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. 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, 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. #LI-MC1 #LI-Hybrid