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# Senior Software Engineer at Taboola

- **Company:** Taboola
- **Location:** Budapest, Hungary
- **Posted:** 2026-08-18
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://www.taboola.com/careers/job/8137256?gh_jid=8137256

## Job description

Realize your potential by joining the leading performance-driven advertising company!

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Dynamic Creative Optimization team in our Budapest office, you’ll play a vital role in building and optimizing the large-scale infrastructure that powers one of Taboola’s revenue-driving systems. You’ll design and develop highly scalable backend services that process hundreds of thousands of real-time requests per second while enabling intelligent decision-making for one of the world’s largest advertising marketplaces. You’ll own complex engineering challenges end-to-end and directly influence products that reach hundreds of millions of users every day.

To thrive in this role, you’ll need:

- 5+ years of backend software engineering experience developing production systems using Java or another object-oriented programming language (preferably Java 8+).
- Experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems and high-performance backend services.
- Strong experience with SQL and NoSQL databases in production environments.
- Solid understanding of web architectures, APIs, distributed systems, and scalable system design.
- Experience with Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, or other large-scale data technologies.
- B.Sc. in Computer Science or an equivalent technical degree.

Bonus points if you have:

- Solid programming skills in Python
- Experience designing and operating telemetry, metrics collection, and alerting stacks at scale (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/logging).
- Practical background in optimizing infrastructure costs and resource efficiency across cloud and on-prem.
- Knowledge of machine learning, algorithms, data mining, or real-time bidding systems.
- Experience with Spark or HDFS.

How you’ll make an impact:

- Design, build, and optimize backend infrastructure supporting one of Taboola’s largest real-time data platforms.
- Own features end-to-end, from architecture and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
- Develop highly scalable services processing hundreds of thousands of requests per second and tens of terabytes of new data daily.
- Collaborate closely with experienced software engineers to solve complex distributed systems challenges.
- Build innovative platforms that improve real-time decision-making, experimentation, and marketplace performance.
- Drive technical excellence while influencing products that impact billions of content recommendations across the open web.
- Design and maintain monitoring and alerting setups to spot and address system health issues before they impact users.

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 onhttps://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?fetchDeterministicClustersOnly=true&heroEntityKey=urn%3Ali%3Aorganization%3A128707&keywords=taboola&origin=RICH_QUERY_SUGGESTION&position=2&searchId=dcc8bfbb-b05c-458e-a7f1-726d30e7dd80&sid=9(y&spellCorrectionEnabled=false,[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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