Senior Software Engineer

Taboola

Tel Aviv, Israel💼 Full-time🗓 2026-05-18 → 2026-10-02

Core

Building and scaling high-throughput data pipelines and identity graph systems for performance-driven advertising.

Role type

Senior Software Engineer (Infrastructure & Big Data)

Builds

Data pipelines, identity graph, frontend and backend services for ad campaigns

Domain

Advertising technology, Big Data, Distributed Systems

Required skills

Java, infrastructure development, big data expertise, distributed databases, analytical thinking, technical leadership, mentoring (via careerplan.io/jobs/7574404-senior-software-engineer-at-taboola)

Preferred skills

Web/JavaScript technologies, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, NoSQL, Spark, HDFS

Technologies

Java, JS, TS, Python, Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, Cassandra, Vertica, ES, MySQL, Memcached, HDFS, Iceberg, BigQuery, Druid, Kusto, Docker, K8S, Linux, Prometheus, Grafana, Airflow, Cursor, Claude, GitHub Copilot, Langfuse

Responsibilities

Design and develop scalable data pipeline and identity graph systems; own end-to-end lifecycle of frontend and backend services; collaborate with engineering teams; influence ad discovery at scale; develop high-performance systems serving thousands of requests per second

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.