We’re always growing.
Most people think of Valve as a company that makes video games—
and we are. But we also built the software that powers those games and the platform that lets millions of fans play, share, modify, and build communities around more than 1,800 titles. That makes us a full-spectrum entertainment studio. As such, our search for talent has taken us beyond the game industry and into the fields of architecture, economics, psychology, and industrial design. We’re not just growing. We’re diversifying. Where to next? You tell us. We’re after talented people with original ideas and the passion to realize them.
Check out a few of our job openings:
3D Character Artist
3D Character Artist
We’re looking for an experienced character artist with a talent for sculpting and character design. Valve has many projects in various stages of production at all times; artists will be expected to apply their skills in a wide variety of ways, depending on the day-to-day needs of these projects. We're interested in artists who share an equal passion for art and games.
Duties:
- Sculpt high-resolution character models in Zbrush or Mudbox.
- Create clean, low-resolution game topology, uv’s, and textures.
- Work within multi-disciplinary design teams to help bring characters to life while making them work for the game design.
- Collaborate with animators to create characters that can move and perform believably.
- Collaborate with concept artists to revise and improve character designs.
Requirements:
- Five or more years of modeling experience in film or games
- Ability to model characters in a range of styles with an emphasis on character design
- Hard-surface modeling skills
- Good understanding of human anatomy
- Drawing, sculpting, and other traditional art skills a plus
- Get your hands dirty in InDesign, HTML, Flash, and other similar tools.
- Be a vigilant advocate for the user’s experience.
- Take pride in and personal ownership of your work.
- Contribute directly to both the conceptual thinking behind and the physical creation of detailed, high-quality products.
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Animator
Animator
We’re looking for experienced and versatile CG animators with strong storytelling skills to create the motions and performance of 3D, computer-generated characters.
Duties:
- Collaborate with game designers and programmers to design and create the motion sets needed for in-game assets.
- Conceptualize and produce large-scale cinematic moments within games and other forms of media.
- Work with a team of artists to help design characters, sets, and props.
Requirements:
- Three or more years of industry experience—shipped projects a plus
- Working knowledge of Maya
- Ability to animate from concept through final product and execute on a broad range of animation styles
- Work with a team of artists to help design characters, sets, and props.
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Artist
Artist
We’re looking for versatile, self-directed artists who have experience in 2D character and world design and enjoy working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. Your folio should, above all, demonstrate originality, an ability to iterate, and an understanding of color and form. It should also reflect a solid understanding of anatomy and painting, and contain examples that show your awareness and appreciation of Valve’s various Intellectual Properties.
Duties:
- Integrate into a multi-disciplinary team (6-8 people) and continually produce useful concept design based on the group’s collective conversations and decisions.
- Iterate quickly and submit work that solves problems rather than creates them.
- Self-manage and also be aware of the needs and requirements of those around you.
- Generate ideas and use 2D/3D work to communicate those ideas to the team.
Requirements:
- Working knowledge of 3D packages such as ZBrush, Mudbox, SketchUp, etc.
- Communication skills that allow you to describe your process maturely and succinctly
- Ability to change gears quickly when needed
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Bilingual Support Representative
Bilingual Support Representative
If you’re excited by the chance to help grow and support an international gaming community, this is the job for you. Our Steam Platform serves more than 35 million gamers around the world and we value every single one of them. Bilingual support reps assist customers in their native languages by responding to a wide variety of questions–both technical and non-technical–and by helping to translate our games and websites. Multiple positions are available for speakers with a command of English and native fluency in one of the following languages: Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (EU), Russian, and Simplified Chinese.
Duties:
- Answer customer questions via e-mail and forums.
- Translate both technical and non-technical information for internal and external customers.
- Research and report on gaming trends and community feedback in the countries you are supporting.
- Develop relationships with gaming sites in countries you are supporting.
Requirements:
- Native language skills with previous experience translating both technical and non-technical information to and from English
- Customer service-oriented personality with approachable, professional attitude
- Previous customer service or technical support experience for consumer product(s)
- Solid background in Microsoft Office and other similar applications
- Knowledge of business practices and cultural differences in the country you are supporting
- Employment Authorization for the United States
Preferences:
- Strong preference for PC gaming enthusiast who is familiar with Steam
- Previous experience using a trouble ticketing system or CRM application
- Knowledge of HTML, PHP, C++, or other programming languages
- Residents of the Puget Sound region
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Economist
Economist
At Valve, we love data. We love using it to make smart decisions. Economic decisions, for instance. So we’re looking for an experienced quantitative economist who can perform sophisticated economic analysis and data-mining on all relevant aspects of Valve’s gameplay, financial, and company data. Sound like you? If so, contact us. We need your knowledge of behavioral and/or classical economics and statistics, along with your extensive experience with econometrics and data-mining techniques, to generate data-driven analyses and predictive models that inform Valve’s decision-making about products, customers, and partners.
Duties:
- Research, design, develop, and validate economic models to explain user behavior for all of Valve’s products.
- Design experiments to validate experimental hypotheses for in-game economies.
- Provide insight into short- and long-term behavioral patterns of participants in virtual economies.
- Inform decision-making at Valve by providing quantitative and economic rationale for various lines of inquiry.
- Create new avenues of analysis based on existing economic metrics, as well as generating new domains of data to collect and investigate.
- Collaborate with our business development team to improve the performance of existing pricing strategies and incentives for our customers and partners.
Requirements:
- Graduate degree in Economics or related field
- Advanced knowledge of statistics
- Four years experience with:
- Econometrics/data-mining or related field
- Relevant analysis techniques that inform the creation of economic models
Recommended:
- Proficiency in one or more of the following programming languages: C++, SQL, PHP, or equivalent
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Film Editor
Film Editor
We’re looking for versatile, self-directed editors who have experience creating movies from previz to final output, especially films that contain elements of drama, action, and visual effects. You must enjoy working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. Though editing has been called the "invisible art," your reel or body of work should demonstrate a mastery of the craft, an ability to iterate, and a solid understanding of visual storytelling.
Duties:
- Integrate into a multi-disciplinary team (6-8 people) and continually produce useful rough edits based on the group’s collective conversations and decisions.
- Iterate quickly and submit work that solves problems rather than creates them.
- Self-manage and also be aware of the needs and requirements of those around you.
- Generate ideas and use rough edits to communicate those ideas to the group.
Requirements:
- Strong knowledge of an editing package or two, such as Final Cut, Avid, Premiere, etc.
- Ability to deliver without an assistant editor
- Must be flexible and react quickly to changes in the game environment
- Communication skills that allow you to describe your process maturely and succinctly
- One or more of the following (the more the better):
- Basic knowledge of 3D packages such as Maya, Moto, SketchUp, etc.
- Ability to frame shots, set up camera parameters, and create camera moves
- Lighting skills (rough or final)
- Ability to set up or tune special effects/particle systems (rough or final)
- Character posing and animation skills (rough)
- Sound design skills (rough)
- An awareness and appreciation of Valve’s various Intellectual Properties
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Level Designer
Level Designer
Can you turn a whiteboard concept into a sensational gameplay sequence—or help us figure out why players don’t ever look up when they’re trying to solve puzzles? If so, we need you! We’re looking for level designers to help us create exciting new gameplay experiences. In collaboration with peers from all disciplines (artists, programmers, animators, writers, etc.), you’ll use your skills and knowledge of game design to create imaginative gameplay, produce creative solutions to playtest issues, and quantify and analyze feedback to ensure that players get the most out of every Valve game.
Duties:
- Participate in design sessions to create outline of game experience.
- Build the game world in 3D.
- Use entity scripting to create cinematic sequences of gameplay.
- Work with artists, animators, writers, and programmers to implement elements such as art, animation, story, and design requirements.
- Participate in observed playtesting and create work items based on observations and analysis of playtesting data.
- Manage and prioritize bug lists.
Requirements:
- Working knowledge of a professional level design tool
- Three years industry experience (or equivalent)
- Experience with programming, art, or architecture a plus
- Experience with shipping projects (professional or amateur) a plus
- Please include recent examples of levels or environments you have made
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Motion Designer
Motion Designer
As a designer at Valve, you’ll be part of an extremely motivated, dedicated, and experienced team that’s responsible for some of the most compelling consumer entertainment experiences ever created. You’ll contribute significantly to Valve games and to Steam, Valve’s social entertainment and e-commerce platform. You’ll also use your motion design and problem-solving skills to create world-leading products for millions of users. In collaboration with a cross-disciplinary team of peers, you’ll be helping to define the way users engage with our products – be it a film, a game, a social platform, or an online experience.
Duties:
- Translate design requirements into feasible, compelling entertainment experiences.
- Create conceptual wireframes, motion studies, and low-fidelity prototypes for discussion and testing purposes.
- Design high-fidelity mockups for proof-of-concept testing and planning.
- Iterate through high-fidelity prototypes to solidify design direction.
- Produce shipping designs, finalizing motion details and effects and integrating these into consumer software and linear media for release.
- Get your hands dirty in Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere, Flash, HTML 5, and other similar tools.
- Be a vigilant advocate for the user’s experience.
- Take pride in and personal ownership of your work.
- Contribute directly to both the conceptual thinking behind and the physical creation of detailed, high-quality products.
Requirements:
- BS/BA/BFA degree (or equivalent) in film, design (or equivalent)
- At least six years of professional design experience in the software, TV, or film industry
- A thorough understanding of motion design and film editing principles
- An online portfolio of work
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Psychologist
Psychologist
We believe that the more we know about human behavior, about how and why people do what they do, the better our products will be. All game designers are, in a sense, experimental psychologists. That’s why we’re looking for a experimental psychologist to apply knowledge and methodologies from psychology to game design and all aspects of Valve’s operations. We want to exploit your experience with experimental design, research methods, statistics, and human behavior to help craft even more compelling gameplay experiences for future Valve titles. We’d also expect you to research and weigh in on any and all topics that are relevant to improving the experiences of our customers, partners, and employees.
Duties:
- Provide relevant insight into human behavior in order to shape gameplay and customer experience.
- Perform statistical analyses on all aspects of Valve’s operations: gameplay, financial, and company data.
- Research compelling new hardware technologies.
- Design experiments to evaluate various gameplay hypotheses and design choices.
- Improve existing playtesting methodologies while incorporating novel techniques to improve best practices.
- Develop innovative ways of acquiring relevant data to answer open questions about all aspects of Valve’s products and business practices.
Requirements:
- Graduate degree in Psychology (or equivalent) field
- Advanced knowledge of statistics
- Familiarity with one or more of the following pieces of data analysis software: SPSS, Systat, Matlab, R, (or equivalent)
- Four years experience with:
- Experimental design/research methods
- Relevant research in cognitive, social, human factors, and related disciplines in psychology
Recommended:
- Proficiency in one or more of the following programming languages: C++, SQL, PHP, (or equivalent)
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Software Engineer—Anti-Cheat
Software Engineer—Anti-Cheat
Do you have a strong desire to combat cheating in online games? If so, this could be the gig for you. As a Valve Anti-Cheat engineer, you will use your reverse engineering, debugging, and programming skills to bring down cheaters throughout the Steam community. Your familiarity with executable file formats, dynamic link libraries, and process management will help us unravel webs of online cheaters. As part of the Steam Team, you’ll also help deliver all different kinds of digital content to millions of customers.
Duties:
- Research, design, and develop specialized software systems and applications for detection of cheating software or behavior.
- Analyze cheating software that changes the behavior of games.
- Formulate system-testing procedures to ensure the quality and consistency of software systems developed by Valve.
- Manage, design, and develop specialized distributed applications operating on large clusters of machines.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in computer engineering or applied mathematics (or equivalent)
- Strong analysis, debugging, and reverse engineering skills
- Five years experience with:
- C/C++, in-depth knowledge of Windows platforms
- Windows process management, dynamic link libraries, memory management
- Using networking technologies in large-scale systems or gaming platforms
- Taking a computer software product or video game from conception and development through publication and product shipment
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Software Engineer—Game Audio
Software Engineer—Game Audio
We’re looking for an experienced programmer to work with our audio designers, game designers and engineers to create music and audio that integrates with gameplay.
Duties:
- Create real-time audio technologies to synthesize, process, and control game audio and music.
- Build tools and design workflow for audio designers.
- Build tools and technology to allow game designers to communicate with players using audio.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering or applied mathematics – or equivalent.
- Experience with audio production tools, DSP, or multithreaded systems programming.
- Five years experience in:
- C++, Windows, Xbox360, PS3 or Game Console development.
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Software Engineer—Payment Systems
Software Engineer—Payment Systems
The Steam Platform, one of the fastest growing multimedia digital distribution platforms in the industry today, has a growing need for engineers with a variety of experience in online payment processing, management, and financial auditing systems. Growth and diversity of products mean that we’re looking for Software Engineers who have expertise in multiple disciplines, and the ability to rapidly incorporate new business insights into the Steam Platform. Could that be you?
Duties:
- Design and implement features and services in C++ for high-volume commerce applications.
- Build and maintain e-commerce payment systems.
- Define customer-facing features and backend services for micropayment systems.
- Research, analyze, and design fraud detection methods.
- Troubleshoot application issues as they arise, providing possible solutions along with risk assessment as appropriate.
- Collaborate with and provide technical guidance for other technology groups within Valve as it pertains to Steam.
- Work closely with our product team to help define new feature specifications.
- Work with strategic technology partners, leveraging external APIs to extend functionality of Steam.
- Provide technical detail on and insight into emerging technologies and methodologies and the opportunities they present.
- Support auditing, trending, and reconciliation efforts for financial specialists.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in computer engineering or applied mathematics (or equivalent).
- Five years experience with many or all of these aspects of database implementation in Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, or both:
- SQL application development in PHP, ASP, C#, or C++
- Working knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, and Javascript
- Expert-level debugging and profiling skills, both at the application and systems level
- Outstanding written and verbal communications skills, with ability to explain technical design, concepts, and risks to both developers and non-developers
- Track record of delivering high-impact, complex projects on time with extremely low defect rates
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Software Engineer—Steam Data Mining
Software Engineer—Steam Data Mining
We believe that good information makes for good decisions. We need help mining the data we collect from our online systems and games to improve game design, pricing, sales, security, and operations. If you relish the idea of poring through millions of rows of data each day to find clues and trends, then you might be the engineer we're looking for.
Steam is one of the fastest growing multimedia digital distribution platforms in the industry today, and we want Software Engineers who bring a variety of experience with databases and data management. Growth and diversity of products mean that we’re looking for people with expertise in multiple disciplines, and the ability to rapidly incorporate new business insights into the Steam Platform.
We need engineers who can deal with all aspects of data management strategy:
Duties:
- Collect and analyze requirements company-wide for data needs.
- Develop front-end systems to allow users access to perform ad-hoc queries, manage and customize reports, and track operational data over multiple products and sites.
- Develop back-end systems to facilitate ETL, collection, and replication as input to data warehouse and data marts.
- Manage security, disaster recovery, and availability for business-critical systems.
- Develop enterprise-wide data models, data dictionaries, and promote secure data accessibility.
- Monitor performance and perform tuning and troubleshooting, plus capacity planning, purchasing, and upgrades as necessary.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in computer engineering or applied mathematics (or equivalent)
- Five years experience with many or all of these aspects of database implementation in Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Analysis Services, MySQL, or both:
- Database application development in PHP, ASP, C#, or C++
- Database administration on high-availability, large-scale systems
- Design and management of disk storage systems
- Experience with one or more visualization packages such as Tableau, Spotfire, QlikView, PowerPivot
- Significant experience with one of more business intelligence packages such as Microsoft Analysis Services, Oracle Business Intelligence Suite, SAS Business Intelligence
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Software Engineer—Steam Database
Software Engineer—Steam Database
Can you use an outer join with a table-valued expression to find your car keys while underwater, breathing through a reed? Does your inner serenity multiply 30 million users by 3.5 million concurrent logins by 300 friends by 1000 group memberships and cry: "Again!"? If so, contact us.
The Steam Platform is one of the fastest growing multimedia digital distribution platforms in the industry today and we need Software Engineers who bring a variety of experience in databases and data management. Growth and diversity of products mean that we’re looking for engineers with expertise in multiple disciplines, and the ability to rapidly incorporate new business insights into the Steam Platform.
We want people with the experience to deal with all aspects of our database implementation needs:
Duties:
- Research, design, and develop specialized software systems to implement social networking features using C++ and PHP, and a SQL back end.
- Research, design, and maintain software and database systems to support statistical, financial, and operational analysis of sales, game play, and site usage using C++ and PHP, and a SQL back end.
- Monitor performance and perform tuning and troubleshooting, plus capacity planning, purchasing, and upgrades as necessary.
- Design and implement schemes for data security, system availability, and disaster recovery, including backup, mirroring, and replication.
- Develop enterprise-wide data models and data dictionaries, and promote secure data accessibility.
- Assist team members in implementing database-oriented features, including database modeling, procedural code design, query tuning, and performance management.
- Perform physical database implementation, including partitioning, index tuning, and storage management.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in computer engineering or applied mathematics (or equivalent).
- Five years experience with many or all of these aspects of database implementation in Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, or both:
- SQL application development in PHP, ASP, C#, or C++
- Database administration on high-availability, large-scale systems
- Design and management of disk storage systems
- Capacity planning and system integration
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Sound Designer
Sound Designer
We’re looking for an experienced sound designer and/or interactive audio "integrator" who can help us create sophisticated, emotionally-compelling audio experiences for a variety of media formats and products. You’ll collaborate with a team of broadly-skilled peers to make sound a powerful element in all current and future Valve products, from multimedia ads to video game consoles, PC, and on-line gaming.
Duties:
- Identify audio opportunities and asset needs in Valve commercial and promotional products in a self-driven but collaborative manner.
- Conceptualize, schedule, design, and produce high quality audio assets in accordance with the development and testing cycle of the product.
- Integrate audio in both linear and interactive forms with Valve products using proprietary software.
- Manage all necessary audio assets (sound files, scripts, models, etc.) associated with a product using the necessary software.
- Work with engineers and artists to understand and help develop cutting-edge, proprietary audio technologies.
- Test, debug, and assure the functional quality of all audio in a given product.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in digital and analog audio production
- Five years experience in:
- Professional quality audio production and all related technologies
- Game engine audio implementation technologies
- Taking a video game or linear equivalent (e.g., film) from conception and development through publication and shipment
Please include a reel with your application.
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Steam Account Manager
Steam Account Manager
The Steam Account Manager is one step away from millions of customers, delivering top-tier entertainment on a daily basis. Steam Account Managers come from diverse backgrounds (marketing, business development, project management, etc.). But a primary qualification is experience in the video game industry and a demonstrated capability to work with third parties to ship products and projects. This role is a blend of business development, marketing, partner management, project management and execution—you’ll be working with internal teams and game studios around the world to publish and market games.
You must have experience working with third party partners in a business development or account manager capacity. The ideal candidate must be self-directed and a self-starter, but enjoy working closely with a team. Marketing experience and technical skills are also highly desirable.
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Statistician
Statistician
One thing we have a lot of at Valve is data. Lots and lots of data. And we love using all that information to make better decisions. To help us do that, we’re looking for an experienced statistician who can perform quantitative analyses on all aspects of Valve’s gameplay, financial, and company data. Intrigued? You’d get to use your extensive statistical knowledge, along with practiced data-mining skills, to derive insights from the immense volumes of data we collect. In addition, you’d improve Valve’s existing metrics collection and analysis techniques by formulating new lines of inquiry into untracked metrics and creating best practices for the analysis of all collected data.
Duties:
- Research, design, develop, and validate statistical models to explain past behavior and to predict future behavior across all Valve products.
- Uncover latent trends in user behavior by mining existing statistical databases.
- Generate new lines of inquiry by creating novel metrics to incorporate into our existing tracking databases.
- Inform decision-making at Valve by providing quantitative rationale for various decision alternatives.
- Empirically evaluate financial projections and game design hypotheses.
Requirements:
- Graduate degree in Statistics or Applied Mathematics (or equivalent) field
- Extensive proficiency with one or more of the following pieces of data analysis software: SPSS, Systat, Matlab, R, or equivalent
- Four years experience with:
- Statistics/data modeling in an applied context
- Relevant statistical techniques to inform the creation of predictive models
Recommended:
- Proficiency in one or more of the following programming languages: C++, SQL, PHP (or equivalent)
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Steam Technical Account Manager
Steam Technical Account Manager
As a Steam Technical Account Manager on the Steam publishing team, you’ll be working with top-tier developers throughout the industry. The role is a blend of developer support and project management; you’ll help developers get their games on Steam and utilize the Steamworks platform. C++ skills are a must. So is experience in the video game industry helping third parties ship products and projects. This is the perfect role for someone with the unique combination of technical proficiency and people/organizational skills.
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User Experience Designer
User Experience Designer
As a designer at Valve, you’ll be part of an extremely motivated, dedicated, and experienced team that’s responsible for some of the most compelling consumer entertainment experiences ever created. You’ll contribute significantly to Valve games and to Steam, Valve’s social entertainment and e-commerce platform. You’ll also use your design and problem-solving skills to create world-leading products for millions of users. In collaboration with a cross-disciplinary team of peers, you’ll be helping to define the way users interact with our products—be it a game, an internal software tool, a social platform, or a web experience.
Duties:
- Translate business and product-level requirements into feasible, compelling entertainment and e-commerce experiences.
- Create conceptual wireframes, user flow diagrams, and low-fidelity prototypes for discussion and testing purposes.
- Iterate through detailed evaluation with peers from varying disciplines.
- Design high-fidelity mockups to solidify design direction and planning.
- Create working prototypes for usability and proof-of-concept testing.
- Conduct data-driven evaluation of your work through user playtesting.
- Produce shipping designs, finalizing interaction, layout, color, typography, images, and icons.
- Get your hands dirty in HTML, CSS, Flash, and other similar tools.
- Be a vigilant advocate for the user’s experience.
- Take pride in and personal ownership of your work.
- Contribute directly to both the conceptual thinking behind and the physical creation of detailed, high-quality products.
Requirements:
- BS/BA/BFA degree (or equivalent) in graphic design, interaction design (or equivalent)
- At least six years of professional design experience in the software industry
- A thorough understanding of user interface design and usability principles
- An online portfolio of work
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Web Engineer—Back End
Web Engineer—Back End
Steam is one of the fastest growing multimedia digital distribution platforms in the industry today. A rich web presence and strong web backend are central to the architecture of Steam. The Steam team is seeking senior level engineers who can help design, implement, and ship new features on the web in addition to strengthening the web-based architectural components of the platform.
As a part of our extremely motivated and experienced group of people, you'll work with Valve's game and Steam development teams to add exciting new web-based features to our best-of-breed computer games and pioneering e-commerce platform.
Duties:
- Regularly ship a variety of products from small internal tools to large-scale web applications used by millions of visitors per week.
- Directly and meaningfully impact the experience of those players and customers.
- 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- and Steam-related data.
- Follow through from project inception through design to detailed completion.
- Iterate on solutions based on internal feedback, plus feedback from publishing partners and customers.
- Drive the development of end-to-end data management solutions including database schema, database back-up and management, and performance tuning.
- 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.
Requirements:
- Three or more years experience with many or all of these aspects of web-based software development:
- Fluency with HTML and CSS
- Expert level programming skills with experience with PHP or another common web programming language such as Java, Python, Ruby, or C#/.NET
- Experience with C++/C is also desirable, though not required
- Experience scaling out large websites and debugging performance issues in large scale production environments
- Database development experience with at least one of the following: Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, or Oracle
- Web API design experience with JSON and/or XML
- Experience with presentation technologies like AJAX, or similar
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Web Engineer—Front End
Web Engineer—Front End
Steam is one of the fastest growing multimedia digital distribution platforms in the industry today. A rich web presence and strong web backend are central to its architecture. The Steam team is seeking senior level engineers who can help design, implement, and ship new features on the web in addition to strengthening the web-based architectural components of the platform.
As a part of our extremely motivated and experienced group of people, you'll work with Valve's game and Steam development teams to add exciting new web-based features to our best-of-breed computer games and pioneering e-commerce platform.
Duties:
- Regularly ship a variety of products from small internal tools to large-scale web applications used by millions of visitors per week.
- Directly and meaningfully impact the experience of those players and customers.
- 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 feedback, plus feedback from publishing partners and customers.
- Rapidly prototype web user interfaces.
- Participate in design process, gathering requirements with other engineers and designers.
- Drive improvements in usability and interactivity on Valve’s web properties.
- Create measurable success.
- Create open and re-usable web application components.
- Be self-directed and be able to prioritize your own workload.
Requirements:
- Three or more years experience with many or all of these aspects of web-based software development:
- Expert level frontend HTML, CSS, and JavaScript skills
- Experience with PHP or a similar web programming language (Java, Python, Ruby, C#/.NET)
- Experience with JavaScript frameworks such as Prototype or jQuery
- Ability to work with graphic designers or from mockups to quickly prototype interactive web experiences and iterate on user experience
- Experience creating rich interactive sites including dynamic content loading, rich graphical effects, and animations and transitions with web standards technologies
- Some Flash experience is a plus, though not required
- Experience targeting mobile platforms is a plus, though not required
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