Valve hiring Engineer to port to new platform for them

[Saist]

http://www.valvesoftware.com/job-SenSoftEngineer.html

Responsibilities
* Develop an understanding of Valve's Internet business and player community and contribute creative web-focused design solutions to improve the experience of using Valve's products

* Manage the operation of large clusters of machines running both Windows and Linux in a highly available system.

* Utilize knowledge of networking technologies and their appropriate use in large scale digital distribution systems and gaming platforms.

* Port Windows-based games to the Linux platform.

* Test, document, and maintain large scale networking installations and their assorted protocols

* oversee and implement quality assurance of applications in house and third party games distributed on Steam™

Nough Said.

[Tapewolf]

* Port Windows-based games to the Linux platform.

[Drools]

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

Hmmm.

I can do the maintenance of large-scale systems. Porting is a bit beyond me, but... ;-]

[Ryudo Lee]

* Port Windows-based games to the Linux platform.

[Drools]

This is one of the main reasons I've been only tinkering with Linux instead of diving in head first.  If they actually can port all the games in Steam to Linux, I would highly consider... making a separate Linux box specifically for Steam games.  Now if GameTap, and other content delivery systems would do the same thing, then I'd make the switch completely.