Data Platform Engineering Team Leader

About the role

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

As a Data Platform Engineering Team Leader on the Infrastructure R&D Department in our Tel Aviv office, you'll lead the engineering team behind the data platform powering Taboola's reporting, billing, experimentation, ML training, and revenue optimization. You'll shape the technical direction of one of our most critical platforms, grow exceptional engineers, and solve complex data infrastructure challenges at massive scale—building systems that are reliable, scalable, and easy to use.

To thrive in this role, you'll need:

- 5+ years leading and managing software development teams.

- 8+ years of software engineering experience with Java or a similar object-oriented language.

- Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production, including Kafka, Spark, Linux, and Kubernetes.

- Strong understanding of object-oriented design, concurrent programming, SQL, and NoSQL databases.

- Experience leading architecture discussions, reviewing code, and driving technical direction across engineering teams.

- B.Sc. in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

Bonus points if you have:

- Experience with dbt, Airflow, StarRocks, or Druid in production.

- Experience leveraging AI agents to improve engineering productivity and familiarity with ML data pipelines.

How you’ll make an impact:

- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of talented software engineers while fostering technical excellence and ownership.

- Define the team's technical strategy, roadmap, and architecture for one of Taboola's core data platforms.

- Own the reliability, scalability, and performance of the data pipelines powering reporting, billing, experimentation, and ML training.

- Partner with engineering, product, finance, and ML teams to align priorities and deliver high-impact platform capabilities.

- Drive the adoption of modern data technologies and AI-powered engineering practices to improve developer productivity and platform evolution.

- Stay hands-on by reviewing architecture, code, and technical designs, while helping the team solve complex engineering challenges.

- Guide the evolution of the Spark SQL platform and shared data infrastructure used across R&D.

- Represent the team in architecture reviews, hiring, incident postmortems, and technical forums.

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)