Taboola

Bid Ops Optimization Engineer (Maternity Leave Cover)

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22 hours ago
Tel Aviv-Yafo, IsraelMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Investigate and resolve escalated Header Bidding cases end to end by diagnosing data, fixing configurations, and quantifying uplift.
  • Analyze publisher health KPIs and identify recurring optimization opportunities involving presets, ad sizes, blocking rules, and floors.
  • Debug live publisher pages using browser DevTools, including DOM inspection, bid request and response tracing, console errors, and timing analysis.
  • Explain technical findings, recommended changes, and business value to Account Managers, publishers, Sales, and other stakeholders.
  • Join client pitch calls as a technical expert and help clients understand the technical requirements for working with Taboola.
  • Use SQL, Salesforce, Grafana, Tableau, and AI tools to accelerate analysis and documentation.
  • Collaborate with Product, R&D, and Algorithms to improve individual publisher performance and the bidder overall.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of experience in ad-tech, programmatic, publisher operations, solutions engineering, or another technical customer-facing role.
  • Strong SQL skills, including tracing metric changes to root causes and validating queries for double counting.
  • Experience debugging live publisher pages with browser DevTools and analyzing the DOM, Network tab, console errors, and timing.
  • Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for reading page source, locating rendered ad units or widgets, and adjusting widget styling.
  • Ability to explain technical findings and business impact clearly to Account Managers and publishers.
  • Excellent written and spoken English.
  • Hands-on knowledge of Header Bidding, Prebid, and RTB is preferred, including bid requests and responses, floors, ad sizes, timeouts, and SSP behavior.
  • Experience reading Prebid.js configurations or wrapper code is preferred.
  • Experience building dashboards or internal tools for non-technical users, running training programs, or using AI-assisted workflows and building agents is a plus.

Benefits

  • Temporary maternity-leave replacement position that may expand into a full-time role.
  • Hybrid work schedule with 3 days in the office in Tel Aviv, with the option to come in more often.
  • Comprehensive benefits, a fully stocked kitchen, and location-specific perks such as gym partnerships and parking.

Tech Stack

CSSGrafanaHTMLJavaScriptSQL

Categories

Solutions Engineering
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About Taboola

1,001-5,000 employees

Taboola builds an AI-driven native advertising and content recommendation platform for publishers, advertisers, and device makers, including the Realize ad-buying platform. The public company, founded in 2007 and headquartered in New York, trades on NASDAQ and FRA, partners with publishers such as NBC News and Yahoo and OEMs like Samsung and Xiaomi, and its network reaches roughly 600 million daily active users.

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