Desired Skills and Experience

  • day to day engineering operations: handling infrastructure incidents, keeping our systems healthy and supporting engineers when they hit a technical roadblock in their release routines
  • streamlining development and release process: engineers need tools to be able to deploy, change configuration, revert and monitor all of our systems seamlessly, painlessly and autonomously
  • managing infrastructure (such as Kafka and Hadoop) deployed in our large data centres with thousands of machines
  • performance tuning: a DevOps engineer works with engineers to profile and drill down into code of resource intensive apps for optimisation
  • architecture: work with the rest of the senior team to negotiate setup and architecture, responsibility and communication between system components
  • Skilled in coding or system operations, and a strong desire to improve both.
  • We expect you to like working with people - you’ll be doing that a lot.
  • You should be a reliable, trustworthy person that keeps their promises.
  • Strong understanding of Linux.
  • Having experience with our stack (Docker, Ansible, AWS, Kafka, Hadoop, Aerospike, Jenkins, InfluxDB, Grafana…) is a plus, but not mandatory - we value talent, strong fundamentals and dedication to excellence more than the tools you’ve used.
  • International environment: work with world-class Outbrain engineers based in Tel Aviv and New York on a daily basis
  • Full-time employment with an attractive salary package
  • Stock options plan
  • Traveling to world’s leading software engineering conferences every year and learning from the best
  • A laptop and other equipment of your choice
  • Opportunity to give back to community - by open-sourcing code, giving talks and sharing knowledge through our tech blog
  • Flexible working hours and an ability to work from home occasionally - we want our employees to have a healthy work-life balance
  • Free access to the gym and pool across the street to keep you in shape
  • low latency & high throughput distributed applications for real time bidding (100k+ req/sec),
  • present in 4 datacentres worldwide
  • big data analytics for ad campaign reporting and monitoring,
  • applying machine learning to optimization of campaigns,
  • infrastructure orchestration and scaling to be able to quickly adapt to software and infrastructure changes,
  • UI to bring the best experience of our data heavy dashboard to our users.