Senior Release Engineer – Infrastructure

Curious about what it’s like to work at the world’s number 1 discovery platform? We’re glad you asked!

Taboola, the world’s largest content recommendation platform, is hiring a Release Engineer for the Infrastructure Engineering R&D group.

About Us:
Taboola is at the forefront of building scalable and resilient systems that power millions of users worldwide. We are seeking a Release Engineer who thrives in a high-scale, fast-moving environment and is passionate about automation, CI/CD, and delivering seamless deployments. We embrace Gen-AI tools to enhance developer velocity and continuously innovate our workflows. If you enjoy working with cutting-edge technology and solving complex infrastructure challenges, we want to hear from you!

What are some of the things you do on a day-to-day basis?

• Solve scaling challenges in our build system, handling 8 million lines of code and 160,000 unit tests efficiently.
• Drive best practices for DevOps, site reliability, and infrastructure scalability.
• Build and support a self-service toolset to empower developers and streamline release processes.
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to ensure smooth, automated, and reliable software releases.
• Develop scalable infrastructure as code (IaC) solutions to improve deployment efficiency and system reliability.
• Enhance observability, monitoring, and logging to proactively detect and resolve performance issues.
• Work closely with development to optimize release workflows and reduce downtime.
• Manage and improve containerization strategies using Kubernetes, Docker, and related technologies.
• Leverage Gen-AI tools to accelerate development velocity across all RnD.
• Own the management of third-party libraries in our central Java code repository, ensuring seamless Spring and Java upgrades

Our Tech Stack:

Java, Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, Cassandra, Vertica, MySQL, HDFS, BigQuery, Docker, Linux, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Metrictank, Grafana, Airflow, Redis

This is us!

What are the skills a good Release Engineer needs to have?

• 5+ years of experience in object oriented programming and infrastructure development
• Experience in Release Engineering, DevOps, or a related field.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation (Python, Bash, Go, or similar).
• Strong expertise in CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, etc.).
• Deep knowledge of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, etc.).
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, etc.).
• Solid understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and scalable architecture principles.
• Passion for automation, efficiency, and solving complex scaling challenges.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work across teams.

Why Taboola? 

• Taboola is the world’s leading recommendation platform reaching over 500 million daily active users. We’re growing rapidly, and have recently gone public on the NASDAQ.
• Adam Singolda, Taboola Founder and CEO says; “You can copy anything from another business but you can’t copy a company’s culture.”
• If you ask our employees what they love about Taboola they will tell you that here, they are able to discover their best professional selves, explore where they can grow to, and learn from and together with smart and talented people.
• At Taboola, we pride ourselves in making an impact on how people consume content across the world, a culture of transparency, passion, and a diverse, inclusive and friendly work environment. 
• You can get to know us more by visiting our company website, careers site, Taboola Life blog and social media channels; Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn 

Sounds good, how do I apply? 

It’s easy, submit your CV by clicking the “Apply” button below.

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