Data Engineer

Realize your potential by joining the leading performance-driven advertising company
As a
Data Engineer
on the IT production team in our Budapest Office, you'll play a vital role impacting billions of users, work with petabytes of data in extreme scale and make a difference, send us your resume. Or In other words, If you like: Database performance tuning, Doing it at scale, Building tools that will help you do it Using AI to make it legendary Taboola is the place for you.

To Thrive In This Role, You'll Need

• 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/programming languages like Bash, Perl or Python
• Ability to programmatically build tools that will help the team with its day-to-day tasks
• 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

How You'll Make An Impact, As a Data Engineer:

• Advise on the optimal database design by analyzing application behavior and business requirements
• Design data flow processes
• Work with AI at scale on developing high impact solutions
• 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, Iceberg, ElasticSearch, Grafana

Why Taboola?
About
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, 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: We work with some of the biggest names in the business. Our publisher partners include Yahoo, Conde Nast, Fox Sports, NBCU, ESPN, CBS, and E Online. Our advertiser clients include Wells Fargo, Honda, Pinterest, Expedia and Honda.

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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