Employment opportunities

Senior Software Engineer, Web Applications

Description
As a senior engineer in charge of web applications and tools, you'll be part of an extremely motivated and experienced group of people.
You will:
Work as part of Valve's core development team, adding web applications and components to our best-of-breed computer games and pioneering e-commerce platform.
Regularly ship a variety of products from small internal tools to large-scale web applications used by millions of people per month.
Directly and meaningfully impact the experience of those players & customers.

Responsibilities
Develop an understanding of Valve's player community and contribute creative web-focused design solutions to improve the experience of using Valve's products
Improve internal visibility of various game-related and steam-related data
Follow-through from project inception through design to detailed completion
Iterate on solutions based on internal and external (customer) feedback

Develop end-to-end data management solutions including database schema, database back-up & management, and performance tuning.
Rapidly prototype web user interfaces
Participate in design process, gathering requirements with other engineers and designers
Create measurable success
Create open and re-usable web application components
Be self-directed and be able to prioritize your own workload

Required Qualifications
BS/BA degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience.
7-10 years professional experience in software development

Languages
PHP
C++/C
Java
Python
ASP
.Net
C#

Web Development
XML
SQL Server 2000/2005
Web Services, preferably JSP/J2EE and Javascript
.NET Web Services
AJAX or similar
HTML

Network Computing and Protocols
TCP/IP
UDP

Operating Systems
Windows
Linux
Equipment and Applications
Windows and Linux server configuration familiarity

General skills
Experience programming multithreaded applications a plus
Experience programming TCP socket applications a plus


To apply, please email your resume, URL, and/or work samples.