Software Engineer- Infrastructure

Taipei, Taiwan💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-16 → 2026-09-27

Core

Build and scale the core platform behind one of the largest real-time recommendation systems in the world, handling 1.4 billion users and 950,000 requests per second.

Role type

Senior IC infrastructure software engineer (distributed systems)

Builds

Core framework code, high-scale data pipelines, and cluster management capabilities for the real-time recommendation engine.

Domain

Advertising technology, large-scale distributed systems, real-time data processing

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Java, distributed systems design, SQL/NoSQL, Linux, concurrent programming, system observability

Preferred skills

Big Data tools, algorithms, data mining, machine learning

Technologies

Java, Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, Cassandra, Vertica, MySQL, HDFS, BigQuery, Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Redis

Responsibilities

Design, develop, deploy, and maintain end-to-end services; improve observability and monitoring; leverage Gen-AI tools to accelerate development; collaborate on core framework evolution.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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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, 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.