# Site Reliability Engineer, Traffic Infrastructure

As a Site Reliability Engineer in the R&D Infrastructure department in our Tel Aviv Office, you'll own the path every request takes before it reaches a service: The CDN edge, the anycast VIPs behind it, a large fleet of open source load balancers and service mesh components. At peak that chain carries millions requests per second on the way to serving tens of billions of recommendations a day. We need a networking specialist who doesn't stop at the wire. You bring in depth networking knowledge, native Linux fluency and modern coding practices with the diagnostic intuition to debug complex interactions between BGP enabled nodes, reverse proxies and application logs. To thrive in this role, you'll need: 5+ years running production organization with internet-facing traffic infrastructure at very large scale, with deep understanding of TCP/IP stack (BGP, anycast, ECMP, DNS-based traffic steering, TCP, TLS, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3). Deep hands-on ownership of L7 proxies in production: Nginx, HAProxy or Envoy/Istio, covering configuration at scale, performance tuning and the class of bugs that only appear under real load. Production experience with a commercial CDN such as Fastly, Cloudflare,

- **Id**: 901897
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/taboola-site-reliability-engineer-traffic-infrastructure>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Tel Aviv, Israel
- **Countries**: IL
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-14T11:50:45Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-01
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T07:43:52Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 54
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4165
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Hybrid work
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Advertising, Recommendation Systems

## Company

- **Id**: 5459
- **Name**: Taboola
- **Domain**: taboola.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/taboola>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 85
- **Open postings**: 15
- **Ghost share**: 0.067
- **Stale share**: 0.333
- **Repost share**: 0.2
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 57
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Technologies

- **Akamai** — Optional: no
- **BGP** — Optional: no
- **Cloudflare** — Optional: no
- **DNS** — Optional: no
- **Envoy** — Optional: no
- **Fastly** — Optional: no
- **HAProxy** — Optional: no
- **Istio** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Nginx** — Optional: no
- **Service Mesh** — Optional: no
- **TCP/IP** — Optional: no
- **Tcpdump** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 54

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Israel** — Iso: IL; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-14T11:55:55Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 54
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.726
- **P room**: 0.75
- **Age days**: 54
- **Expected fill days**: 57
- **Reasons**: conf:2, velocity, win:late
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

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