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# Bid Ops Optimization Engineer (Maternity Leave Cover) at Taboola

- **Company:** Taboola
- **Location:** Tel Aviv, Israel
- **Posted:** 2026-10-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-31
- **Apply:** https://www.taboola.com/careers/job/8264354?gh_jid=8264354

## Job description

Realize your potential by joining the leading performance-driven advertising company and a proud Great Place to Work® Certified employer in Israel.

As a Bid Ops Optimization Engineer on the Optimization team in our Tel Aviv Office, you’ll play a vital role in keeping our Header Bidding publishers healthy and growing. You’ll take escalated cases from Account Managers and monitoring alerts, find what is holding a publisher back, fix it, and show what the fix is worth. You’ll proactively find areas of improvement based on investigation of health KPIs. You’ll work with Product, R&D and Algorithms to improve both individual publishers and the bidder as a whole. This is a temporary replacement for a maternity leave position that may expand into a full time role.

To thrive in this role, you'll need:

- 4+ years in ad-tech, programmatic, publisher operations, solutions engineering or another technical, customer-facing role
- Strong SQL: you can go from a metric movement to a root cause and check your own query for double counting
- Experience debugging on live publisher pages with browser DevTools: inspecting the DOM, tracing bid requests and responses in the Network tab, checking console errors and timing
- Experience working with HTML, CSS and JS, able to read a publisher's page source, find where an ad unit or widget is rendered, and style or adjust a widget
- The ability to explain technical findings and their business value to Account Managers and publishers, with the business impact first
- Excellent written and spoken English

Bonus points if you have:

- Hands-on knowledge of Header Bidding / Prebid and RTB, including bid requests and responses, floors, ad sizes, timeouts and SSP behavior.
- Experience reading Prebid.js configurations or wrapper code to understand how a page calls our bidder
- Experience building dashboards or internal tools for non-technical users, or running training programs
- Experience with AI-assisted workflows or building agents

How you’ll make an impact:

- Investigate and resolve escalated Header Bidding cases end to end: diagnose with data, fix the configuration and quantify the uplift
- Look for patterns that affect many publishers, such as shared presets, ad sizes, blocking rules and floors, instead of only reacting to cases
- Be the technical voice for Account Managers and, when needed, publishers: explain what happened, what we changed and what it is worth
- Present findings and recommendations to business stakeholders, and help Sales frame technical optimization as a commercial story
- Join client pitch calls as a technical expert, helping clients understand what is needed to work with us
- Use SQL (Vertica), Salesforce, Grafana, Tableau and AI tools to speed up analysis and documentation

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 publisher partners include Yahoo, Conde 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](https://www.linkedin.com/company/taboola/), [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/taboola/), [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/taboola.israel/?hl=en), [X](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BctKkw2Vj_EOjvy24kjRKq_ZxZzmZxweIqNLQgsLtcs/edit?tab=t.0), [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6W0hdStO0jRVYhg4ABzjRw), & the [Taboola Life Blog](https://bit.ly/41kidx9).

## 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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## About Taboola

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Digital advertising / Ad tech (content recommendation, native advertising, performance marketing)
- **Target customers**: B2B – publishers and advertisers of all sizes, from SMBs to large enterprises
- **Mission or purpose**: To help people discover what’s next and enable advertisers to reach audiences at scale on the open web.

## Products & Services
- **Realize**: Performance advertising platform that uses Taboola’s unique data and reach to drive high-intent conversions beyond search and social.
- **Taboola Feed**: In-feed native ad placements integrated into publisher content streams.
- **DeeperDive**: Contextual targeting solution that matches ads to article content.
- **Taboola News**: Ad placements within mobile news apps and home screens.
- **Taboola for Audience**: Audience extension and retargeting product.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: ~$1.14 billion (as of mid-2026) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/taboola)
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of $1.9 billion (2024) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/taboola)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Fidelity (led Series E), Yahoo (post-IPO equity), Evergreen Venture Partners. Key partnerships include major publishers and Yahoo.
- **Growth Signals**: 7.9% YoY employee growth (1,634 employees), 39 countries of operation, strong hiring despite market conditions, multiple Great Place to Work certifications globally.

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-driven platform**: Heavy investment in machine learning for contextual targeting and performance optimization, differentiating from legacy click-driven native ads.
- **Scale and reach**: One of the largest content recommendation networks on the open web, serving billions of recommendations daily.
- **Data moat**: Proprietary user-engagement data across a vast publisher network enables superior ad targeting.
- **Strong publisher relationships**: Long-term contracts with top media sites create a defensible supply-side advantage.

## Strategic Focus
- **Moving beyond native advertising**: Evolving into a full-fledged performance advertising platform (Realize) to compete with Google and Meta in the open web.
- **AI investment**: Continued R&D to improve ad relevance and ROI for advertisers.
- **Expansion into new verticals and geographies**: Growing presence in emerging markets and diversifying product offerings (e.g., Taboola News).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Consistently rated a top workplace – 4.2/5 on Glassdoor, certified Great Place to Work in 10 countries, Fortune Best Workplaces in NYC and Advertising & Marketing (2024, 2025), Built In Best Workplace (2024–2026). [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/taboola/faq/workplace-perception)
- **Work model**: Hybrid – 3 days in office, 2 remote (with flexibility to be in office more). Flexible Time Off (FTO) built on trust.
- **Perks**: Daily lunch credits or catered meals, stocked kitchens, wellness zones, game rooms, gender-neutral restrooms. Biannual performance reviews, internal mobility, and promotion from within.
- **Engineering culture**: 436 technical employees (21% of workforce), strong R&D presence in Israel (662 employees). Managers and specialists make up the largest seniority groups, offering clear growth paths.
- **Leadership**: CEO Adam Singolda has 91% approval on Glassdoor; monthly all-hands with transparent Q&A.

## Sources
1. [taboola.com – Careers](https://www.taboola.com/careers)
2. [linkedin.com – Taboola Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/taboola)
3. [builtin.com – Workplace Perception FAQ](https://builtin.com/company/taboola/faq/workplace-perception)
4. [taboola.com – Homepage](https://www.taboola.com/)
5. [taboola.com – Jobs Search](https://www.taboola.com/careers/jobs)

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