Realize your potential by joining the leading performance-driven advertising company!
As a Data Platform Engineering Team Leader on the Infrastructure R&D Department in our Tel Aviv office, you'll lead the engineering team behind the data platform powering Taboola's reporting, billing, experimentation, ML training, and revenue optimization. You'll shape the technical direction of one of our most critical platforms, grow exceptional engineers, and solve complex data infrastructure challenges at massive scale—building systems that are reliable, scalable, and easy to use.
To thrive in this role, you'll need:
- 5+ years leading and managing software development teams.
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with Java or a similar object-oriented language.
- Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production, including Kafka, Spark, Linux, and Kubernetes.
- Strong understanding of object-oriented design, concurrent programming, SQL, and NoSQL databases.
- Experience leading architecture discussions, reviewing code, and driving technical direction across engineering teams.
- B.Sc. in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
Bonus points if you have:
- Experience with dbt, Airflow, StarRocks, or Druid in production.
- Experience leveraging AI agents to improve engineering productivity and familiarity with ML data pipelines.
How you’ll make an impact:
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of talented software engineers while fostering technical excellence and ownership.
- Define the team's technical strategy, roadmap, and architecture for one of Taboola's core data platforms.
- Own the reliability, scalability, and performance of the data pipelines powering reporting, billing, experimentation, and ML training.
- Partner with engineering, product, finance, and ML teams to align priorities and deliver high-impact platform capabilities.
- Drive the adoption of modern data technologies and AI-powered engineering practices to improve developer productivity and platform evolution.
- Stay hands-on by reviewing architecture, code, and technical designs, while helping the team solve complex engineering challenges.
- Guide the evolution of the Spark SQL platform and shared data infrastructure used across R&D.
- Represent the team in architecture reviews, hiring, incident postmortems, and technical forums.
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: Enjoy comprehensive benefits (health, 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: Our advertiser clients include Wells Fargo, Honda, Pinterest, and Expedia. Our publisher partners include Yahoo, Conde Nast, Fox Sports, NBCU, ESPN, CBS, and E! Online.
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.
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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.
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Skills Required
- 5+ years leading and managing software development teams
- 8+ years engineering background in Java or equivalent object-oriented language
- Experience developing large-scale distributed systems and production infrastructure
- Deep grounding in CS fundamentals: OOP design, data structures, concurrency
- Deep expertise in Kafka and Spark
- Highly proficient with Linux and Kubernetes in production
- Experience with both SQL and NoSQL systems
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate across teams and drive alignment
- Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills
- B.Sc. in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Experience with dbt and/or Airflow
- Experience with StarRocks production deployments
- Experience with Druid production deployments
- Knowledge of Ansible, Puppet, or similar configuration systems
- Track record of leveraging AI agents to accelerate engineering work
- Familiarity with ML training pipelines and how they consume data
What the Team is Saying
Taboola Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave includes 26 weeks of paid time for primary caregivers, tenure-based time for secondary caregivers, and a phased return at full pay. Childcare support, adoption assistance, and family-focused events are additionally cited.
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Healthcare Strength — Core coverage spans medical, dental, vision, and mental health, with inclusive options such as gender-affirmation care in the U.S. FSAs and related health programs are also part of the package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is framed as flexible or unlimited PTO in U.S. roles alongside paid parental leave. This breadth of leave is positioned to support work-life balance across teams.
Taboola Insights
What We Do
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.
Why Work With Us
What sets Taboola apart? Our culture. We combine the massive data scale of a global ad-tech powerhouse with a culture anchored in empathy, non-linear growth, and trust-first flexibility. If you're looking to tackle complex AI challenges alongside brilliant, supportive peers—while being valued as a whole human being—your next chapter starts here.
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Taboola Offices
Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Taboola offers flexibility and the ability to work remotely two days a week with three days in-office.
