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Principals only, no 3rd party recruiters, please.
The Steam Engineering Team at Valve Software, creator of Half-Life and Half-Life 2, is hiring programmers to help expand our industry-leading online gaming platform, one of the biggest online services in the world.
Steam gained an early head start in the online gaming world. We’re now working to aggressively extend our lead. Here’s a partial list of what we’re actively working on:
- Our geographically distributed content delivery system already makes us one of the largest consumers of net bandwidth in the world, and we plan on aggressively increasing the size of our user base and the number of products we distribute. We’re working on a number of technologies for managing all that content, including peer to peer distribution and streaming content.
- Steam already includes a rich set of community features, including in-game instant messaging. We’re actively expanding our community offerings, and working to integrate them much more tightly into our games.
- We provide a sophisticated system for detecting and preventing cheating in our online games.
- We’re exploring a variety of new business and publishing models, including non-traditional purchase models and a comprehensive range of payment options.
- We have a huge, very active user base, with millions of unique users per month, and hundreds of thousands of active concurrent users at all times. Obviously, we spend a lot of time working on very large, very high performance database and networking systems.
Job requirements:
At Valve, we believe that smart programmers can do anything. If you're a good enough programmer, we don't care what specific knowledge you have: we're confident that you can learn what you need to succeed here. By the same token, if you're a mediocre programmer, it doesn't matter how much you know: Valve isn't the right place for you. Everyone at Valve is at the top of their field; you should be also.
Your accomplishments should be appropriate for your industry experience. This means that if you're a new college graduate, you should have written some impressive applications in your spare time. If you've been in the industry for ten years, you should have played a key role in the development of one of the top products in your market.
We use C++ here. You should have strong experience with C/C++ or a related language.
Valve has a very flat organizational structure, with very little formal management. To succeed here, you should be able to work independently.
Although none of the above are required, they are bonuses:
- Being an avid gamer. Although this isn't a game development position, Valve is first and foremost a gaming company, and gaming is an important part of our culture.
- Experience with networked code, including peer to peer networking, instant messaging, and online gaming.
- Experience with writing large distributed server-side applications.
About Valve:
Founded in 1996, Valve is widely recognized as a leader within the gaming industry. Its two flagship releases Half-Life and Half-Life 2 have both received numerous Game Of The Year awards, and have been best-sellers. Valve enjoys an almost-unique level of financial autonomy which allows us to take risks and develop new technologies that are beyond the reach of all but a few game companies.
Principals only, no 3rd party recruiters, please.
The Steam Engineering Team at Valve Software, creator of Half-Life and Half-Life 2, is hiring programmers to help expand our industry-leading online gaming platform, one of the biggest online services in the world.
Steam gained an early head start in the online gaming world. We’re now working to aggressively extend our lead. Here’s a partial list of what we’re actively working on:
- Our geographically distributed content delivery system already makes us one of the largest consumers of net bandwidth in the world, and we plan on aggressively increasing the size of our user base and the number of products we distribute. We’re working on a number of technologies for managing all that content, including peer to peer distribution and streaming content.
- Steam already includes a rich set of community features, including in-game instant messaging. We’re actively expanding our community offerings, and working to integrate them much more tightly into our games.
- We provide a sophisticated system for detecting and preventing cheating in our online games.
- We’re exploring a variety of new business and publishing models, including non-traditional purchase models and a comprehensive range of payment options.
- We have a huge, very active user base, with millions of unique users per month, and hundreds of thousands of active concurrent users at all times. Obviously, we spend a lot of time working on very large, very high performance database and networking systems.
Job requirements:
At Valve, we believe that smart programmers can do anything. If you're a good enough programmer, we don't care what specific knowledge you have: we're confident that you can learn what you need to succeed here. By the same token, if you're a mediocre programmer, it doesn't matter how much you know: Valve isn't the right place for you. Everyone at Valve is at the top of their field; you should be also.
Your accomplishments should be appropriate for your industry experience. This means that if you're a new college graduate, you should have written some impressive applications in your spare time. If you've been in the industry for ten years, you should have played a key role in the development of one of the top products in your market.
We use C++ here. You should have strong experience with C/C++ or a related language.
Valve has a very flat organizational structure, with very little formal management. To succeed here, you should be able to work independently.
Although none of the above are required, they are bonuses:
- Being an avid gamer. Although this isn't a game development position, Valve is first and foremost a gaming company, and gaming is an important part of our culture.
- Experience with networked code, including peer to peer networking, instant messaging, and online gaming.
- Experience with writing large distributed server-side applications.
About Valve:
Founded in 1996, Valve is widely recognized as a leader within the gaming industry. Its two flagship releases Half-Life and Half-Life 2 have both received numerous Game Of The Year awards, and have been best-sellers. Valve enjoys an almost-unique level of financial autonomy which allows us to take risks and develop new technologies that are beyond the reach of all but a few game companies.
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