Software Development Engineer - (US-WA-Redmond - 98074)

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Job Title: Software Development Engineer Job Category: Game Design Product: (Not Product Specific) Date Posted: 02/11/2009 Job Code: 252639 Location: WA - Redmond Travel Required: *To consider similar job openings on MS Careers, use keyword: GAMES Want to be involved in the next huge business for Xbox? Want to create it? Join the server-backed games team, part of the Xbox LIVE team that's responsible for creating a completely new way for mainstream audiences to enjoy the Xbox and LIVE. As a participant, a competitor, or an interested viewer, we want to enable millions of people to tune in and watch or play in groundbreaking new game experiences connected to LIVE. Want to be involved in the next huge business for Xbox? Want to create it? Join a new product team, part of the Xbox LIVE group that's responsible for creating a completely new way for mainstream audiences to consumer and enjoy the Xbox and LIVE service. We are building the games, the console interface and logic, and the server support for all of this. Both the games and the dashboard experience will be deeply paired with dynamic server support to create a compelling, fresh scenario each time. We are a small, entrepreneurial team working together to get things done very quickly in an agile environment. If you want to work in a space where you will get all the responsibility you can swallow, and run as fast as you can, this team is for you. We want an experienced server developer to help develop our server architecture. We are building an extremely high performance system to extend console games to the server in new ways; creating a completely new set of web services to support dynamic programming information of games and scheduling data; integration with the Xbox LIVE services and Xbox.com infrastructure to deliver an end-to-end architecture with our partners. You will be designing and coding our platform with C#, working with Ops to deploy an instrumented and monitored system, working with our tools team to enable others to work with our platform, in short everything it takes to create and ship a product with a small team. Some sample requirements will include listing of current events hosted by our server environment, interacting with my schedule and my friend's schedules to play together, and building a backend capable of hosting a 300,000 player game in real-time with real money on the line (anti-cheating, etc). We want an experienced server developer to spearhead development of our server architecture. We are creating a completely new set of web services extending LIVE for our experiences; integrating with the Xbox LIVE services and Xbox.com infrastructure to deliver an end-to-end architecture with our partners. You will be designing and coding our platform with C#, working with Ops to deploy an instrumented and monitored system, building tools to enable others to work with our platform, in short everything it takes to create and ship a product with a small team. Qualified candidates will have 3+ years of web service / platform development, including strong experience with highly scalable systems and fault tolerance. Good experience in server development with C#, ASP.Net, and SQL is required. Familiarity with server technologies relevant to internet apps (IIS, web services) is also required. Good communication skills, independent drive, customer focus, ability to ramp up quickly on new technology, and driving for results are all expected. Qualified candidates will have 3+ years of web service / platform development, including strong experience with highly scalable systems and fault tolerance. Good experience in server development with C#, ASP.Net, and SQL is required. Familiarity with server technologies relevant to internet apps (IIS, web services) is also required. Good communication skills, independent drive, customer focus, ability to ramp up quickly on new technology, and driving for results are all expected.