Senior Software Engineer - Web for Second Life

Second Life is the future of the internet: an amazing online 3D world where you can create, become, or experience almost anything you can imagine. It's rapidly growing virtual landscape that covers nearly 1
Billion square meters. If your passion is software development, join Linden Lab on the greatest technology adventure ever: designing and developing this online world that is changing the real world. Our unique
approach to creating distributed teams means everyone at Linden Lab works together on the main development projects that power Second Life. With over 15,000 simulators, a million dollars a day being spent in the virtual economy and users from almost every country in the world. Second Life is a big idea with big dreams and big challenges for you to help us solve.


Overview:
Linden Lab is looking for talented, creative web developers to extend the Second Life platform to the Web. We are looking for someone who has experience developing web-based products and services both internal to a medium-size company, and external to a customer base of tens of millions, with an eye towards scalable, internationalized solutions. We are a small team with an important long-term mission, so we work hard to keep our workload reasonable.


We have some of the most interesting large-scale challenges in the industry today, and we are pioneering how the Web will affect virtual worlds, and how virtual worlds affect the Web. We want to empower our users with new and easy ways to use Second Life to better their own lives. You should be able to write maintainable solutions, enjoy collaborating with teammates, communicating with a dynamic, transparent company, and being accountable for the decisions you are empowered to make.


Responsibilities:
Develop extensible architecture and framework for websites.Develop compelling web services for use by the Second Life community.Customize, compile, install, configure, monitor and debug Apache server instances.Help design processes for more efficient content management, including staging and development environments.Design tools to streamline and robustly deploy new systems.Troubleshoot issues with web server, database, security, network, and web technologies.Create and enhance in-house tools to manage web site operations.Write new reporting, maintenance, and test automation tools in PHP and Perl.
Qualifications:
Minimum 3 years overall development experience.Expert level PHP and/or Python, JavaScript and SQL.Expert level object-oriented programming and MVC design.Must thrive in multi-tasking, quick moving, distributed thinking environment.Demonstrated ability to schedule and meet deadlines.Must possess high level of enthusiasm and be a strong team player.

Preferences:
Computer Science degree strongly preferred.Experience creating web services.Experience working with virtual worlds, web communities, and/or social networks.Expert working knowledge of the entire LAMP stack, as well as JavaScript/DOM and HTTP strongly preferred.Shell scripting on Linux/POSIX system strongly preferred.Experience working on E-commerce systems, and/or knowledge of payment processing.Experience building system tools and/or automation scripts.Experience working with i18n / l10n.Proficiency with C++.
Fine Print: Linden Lab seeks to maintain a diverse and welcoming workplace; therefore candidates from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

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