Data Engineer

Curious about what it’s like to work as a Data Engineer? We’re glad you asked! 

Taboola is the world's leading content discovery platform, serving 360B recommendations to over 1B unique visitors each month on the web's most innovative publisher sites, including NBC, USA Today, The Weather Channel, Tribune and many more.

Data is the heart of our day-to-day activity, and we need to run it at scale! Ingesting billions of lines a day, designing fault tolerant and self-healing systems, and researching new big data solutions is all just in a day's work. Working with extremely motivated people on hard problems and finding cutting edge solutions is the way we do things here. Join our team to change how people find content online.

What are some of the things you do on a day-to-day basis?

•  Advise on the optimal database design by analyzing application behavior and business requirements
•  Design data flow processes
•  Proactively monitor and optimize database queries, processes, tables and resources
•  Initiate and lead cross-group optimization processes
• Write utilities and design dashboards that will help us maintain, monitor and optimize the Taboola production database environment and data pipeline
•   Develop automation tools for large cluster maintenance
•   Face challenges such as scale, visibility and automation
•   Be involved in both development and infrastructure projects

Our Tech Stack:

Vertica, MySQL, Hbase, HDFS, Kafka, Spark, Cassandra, BigQuery, ElasticSearch, Grafana

•  Experience working as a Data Engineer/DBA 
•   Deep understanding of performance tuning techniques for relational databases, preferably MySQL/Vertica
•  Good understanding of infrastructure components, storage, networking and server hardware
•  Experience working with scripting languages like Bash, Perl or Python
•   Self motivated, eager to learn, loves challenges
•   Able to work independently
•   Excellent English

It would be great if you also have:

•    In-depth Linux system knowledge
•    Vertica/HBase/Cassandra/Elastic Experience
• Hands-on experience with NoSQL databases
•    Working experience with queuing systems, preferably Kafka
•   Experience in web facing environments

Why Taboola?

• Taboola is the world’s leading recommendation platform reaching over 500 million daily active users. We’re growing rapidly, and have recently gone public on the NASDAQ.
• Adam Singolda, Taboola Founder and CEO says; “You can copy anything from another business but you can’t copy a company’s culture.”
  
  If you ask our employees what they love about Taboola they will tell you that here, they are able to discover their best professional selves, explore where they can grow to, and learn from and together with smart and talented people.
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  At Taboola, we pride ourselves in making an impact on how people consume content across the world, a culture of transparency, passion, and a diverse, inclusive and friendly work environment. 
• You can get to know us more by visiting our company website, careers site, Taboola Life blog and social media channels; Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn 

Want to learn more about us, you’re welcome to watch the latest News article about Taboola

Sounds good, how do I apply?

It’s easy, submit your CV by clicking the “Apply” button below. 

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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