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) Flexibility: We offer a hybrid work schedule with 3 days in-office with an option to come in more often if