Site Reliability Engineer - Panda team

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

As Site Reliability Engineer on the IT Production team in our Tel Aviv Office, you’ll play a vital role in building robust services and solving infrastructure challenges with automations while working with cutting-edge technologies and bringing those to their limits on our mostly on-prem cloud like infrastructure.

To thrive in this role, you'll need:

• 4+ years of experience in software development with a proven track record of designing and developing internal tools, automation frameworks and platform components in large-scale distributed production environments with focus on linux operating systems.

• Deep, demonstrable expertise in one of the following programming languages ( Golang, C, Rust, Python or Java).

• Experience in observability tooling development, specifically implementing custom metrics, tracing and logging within application code.

• Practical understanding of the HTTP protocol (including HTTP methods, status codes and headers). Proven ability to design, implement and instrument robust internal APIs (e.g., using REST or gRPC).

• Understanding in Linux operating system internals: kernel configuration, system calls, process management, memory and I/O.

• Proven ability to troubleshoot and optimize performance bottlenecks under heavy load using advanced monitoring and profiling tools for high-throughput and low-latency applications.

Bonus points if you have:

• Experience as an SRE, DevOps Engineer, System Administrator in a large distributed environment with focus on Linux operating systems.

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you’ll bring value by:

• Ensure Reliability & Scalability: Design, implement and manage highly reliable and scalable distributed systems across our on-premise, cloud and AI/ML environments. Proactively optimize performance, efficiency, resource utilization and cloud cost.

• Drive Automation: Automate repetitive tasks, infrastructure provisioning, configuration and deployments using IaC and scripting languages (e.g., Python, Go, Rust).

• Develop Observability & Capacity: Implement comprehensive monitoring and alerting systems to ensure system health. Collaborate on capacity planning to meet future growth.

• Maintain Security & Compliance: Integrate security best practices and ensure compliance with industry standards.

• Lead Incident Management: Participate in on-call rotations, lead incident responses and conduct root cause analysis to minimize downtime.

• Foster Collaboration & Improvement: Work closely with development, operations and security teams to drive shared responsibility and continuous improvement in SRE practices.

Our Tech Stack:

Linux, Kubernetes, nginx, Istio, AWS, GCP, Azure, Alicloud, Fastly, Terraform, Consul, Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, Airflow, Redis, Kafka, Vector, Hadoop, Cassandra, Vertica, MySQL, HDFS, ELK.

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, 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, 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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