Software Developer – Production Engineering
Realize your potential by joining the leading performance-driven advertising company!
As a Software Developer on the Production Engineering team in our Infrastructure R&D Department, you’ll play a vital role in building and scaling the core platform behind one of the largest real-time recommendation systems in the world.
1.4 billion users. 950,000 requests per second. 140TB of fresh data every day. 800M metrics every minute.
You’ll join a team of strong engineers operating at this scale, with full ownership from design to production.
You’ll have the freedom to move fast, solve complex infrastructure challenges, and help drive what comes next.
To thrive in this role, you’ll need:
- Experience developing large scale distributed systems and solid understanding of production system infrastructure
- Deep understanding of strong Computer Science fundamentals: object-oriented design, data structures, and concurrent/multi-threaded programming
- 3+ years programming experience in Java or equivalent Object-Oriented language
- Production systems understanding
- Experience with SQL and No-SQL
- Highly Proficient in Linux environment
- Proven ability to work effectively across multiple teams
- B.Sc in computer science or equivalent experience
Bonus points if you have:
- Experience in Big Data tools
- Knowledge in algorithms, data-mining and machine learning
As a Production engineering team member, you’ll bring value by:
- Have end to end ownership: Design, develop, deploy, measure and maintain our services
- Build and evolve one of the world's largest real-time systems, including Taboola's core framework code, used across R&D
- Improve observability, monitoring, and logging to proactively detect and resolve performance issues.
- Leverage Gen-AI tools to accelerate development velocity across the R&D organization, enabling further growth of Taboola’s recommendation engine
- Collaborate with the brightest software engineers team members
- Directly shape how billions of people discover the internet.
Here are some of the things software devs in our group did in the last several months:
- Rewrote part of our recommendation servers to reduce serving time p999 by >40%
- Developed internal smart and adaptable cluster management capabilities to allow dynamic resources allocation for heterogeneous traffic patterns
- Created and improved Taboola’s Kafka consumer designed for very high scale
- Developed a brand new Taboola metrics pipeline, ingesting over 100B metric messages per day
- Rolled out a new custom home-built Taboola authentication service
- Many more things…
Our Tech Stack:
Java, Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, Cassandra, Vertica, MySQL, HDFS, BigQuery, Docker, Linux, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Metrictank, Grafana, Airflow, Redis
This is us!
You will work with:
- The people who wrote the first lines of code in Taboola (and many many more lines after that)
- People who are deeply familiar with the code of Kafka, Cassandra, AirFlow, Prometheus and Spark (including committing back)
- Famous internal Taboola hackathon winners
- The designers and implementers of an offheap, zero GC, Custom Kafka Producer which cumulatively sends ~100B messages / day
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 and well-being programs tailored to the region, a fully stocked kitchen, and location-specific perks.
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, Condé 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.
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Skills Required
- Experience developing large-scale distributed systems and understanding production system infrastructure
- Strong computer science fundamentals, including object-oriented design, data structures, and concurrent or multithreaded programming
- At least 3 years of programming experience in Java or an equivalent object-oriented language
- Understanding of production systems
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
- High proficiency in Linux environments
- Ability to work effectively across multiple teams
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Experience with Big Data tools
- Knowledge of algorithms, data mining, and machine learning
What the Team is Saying
Taboola Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage appears comprehensive, including medical, dental, and vision, with mental‑health/EAP resources and wellness programs noted in company materials and postings. Several sources also point to multiple U.S. plan options and affordable choices.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is positioned as a standout, with primary caregivers receiving up to 26 weeks paid and a phased return at full pay, while secondary‑caregiver leave scales with tenure. Additional supports include adoption assistance, childcare benefits, and access to Care.com.
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Retirement Support — U.S. roles consistently reference a 401(k) plan with company matching, sometimes noting immediate vesting on listings. Retirement offerings are presented alongside broader total‑rewards elements like equity and bonuses.
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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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.
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