Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) listed a job offer on CareerBuilder that revealed their plans for the next Halo game.  The new Halo will link the Xbox console with the web and mobile distribution.  Unfortunately the new Halo game is not Halo 3: ODST which is to be released this September.  It will be part of the next Halo experience after that.  The position is Software Development Engineer working out of Redmond, but the environment is like a startup.

After the jump is the full job description:

Software Development Engineer – Relocation to Redmond, WA THIS JOB REQUIRES RELOCATION TO REDMOND, WA

Do you love Halo? Do online social communities and console video games excite you? Do you love building scalable online infrastructure & websites for large and passionate audiences? The Halo franchise studio is looking for a strong software development engineer with a passion for video games and online services. We have an ambitious task ahead, taking the current Halo community and online gaming support system and bringing it to the next level.

We’re looking to blend console, web, and mobile to create an immersive Halo world that follows the dedicated Halo fan wherever they go. We need engineers that can build connected technology while working in a startup environment.

As an engineer on this team, your responsibility will be to deliver a great out-of-game interactive experience that takes the next step beyond the systems found in Halo 3. You will work with artists, designers, developers and testers to finalize design plans, implement those plans, and help coordinate large-scale testing of the out of game Live experience by gamers across the world. Your work also will involve several external teams-including other MGS studios and the Xbox Live team-coordinating development dependencies and design considerations of experience as a whole.

For this year this position is focused on infrastructure, including high efficiency scalability simulation.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Designing the infrastructure for simulation millions of concurrent users on the service Designing and delivering code for community console application Designing and delivering code for services supporting community applications and game titles Building user-facing on-console features such as forums, tournament ladders, media libraries, and integrated mini-games Taking input from creative, community and production leads to produce a console experience Requirements:

QUALIFICATIONS/SKILLS

At least 5 years of C/C++ professional experience (C# is a plus) Strong Networking Skills including such protocols as Winsock, TCP/IP Experience with the Xbox 360 networking APIs Strong Debugging and Optimization skills in a multi-threaded environment Prior experience with services and web development (including ASP.net, SQL, HTML, CSS, and Javascript).

THIS JOB REQUIRES RELOCATION TO REDMOND, WA Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) and strongly supports diversity in the workforce.

“I met John totally by chance — he’d let a roommate play on his gamer tag while he was away, and when he came back, there were friends on his list that he didn’t recognize so he sent out messages to them asking where he’d met them. One of them was me, and my gamertag caught his interest,” stated Desirai. “He asked if we could play some time and we ended up playing on a day-to-day basis. He lived in Florida and I was in New York.”

That was in December 2004 and then they started spending a lot of time on the phone in February.  They started dating in mid-March and then met in person in April.  For college, Desirai wanted to attend Full Sail University in Florida to study digital media and John helped her out.  Desirai had to move back to New York after graduation for family reasons, but couldn’t take being so far away from John.  Both of them did not want to give up on each other.

John proposed in a restaurant and they both knew that they wanted a Halo-styled wedding since that is how they met.  There would be subtle Halo touches in the wedding.  The orchestra would play the Halo theme song and tables would be named after Halo maps.  The Master Chief performed the ceremony and John wore a Halo tie.

“After the reception we had a bride-versus-groom Halo tournament in place of the first dance. To keep with the theme, I wanted to find a creative way to give away the bouquet and garter. So the guys and girls fought each other in a slayer match for them. I liked the idea of people having to earn the garter or bouquet instead of just reaching up and catching it. Who won? John did…by two kills.”

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