Hello Everyone,

My name is Robert Tavormina. I am a technical recruiter for MySpace.com. We have becime quite large and are continuing to grow our staff. We are considered one of the largest and most cutting edge .Net web environments in the world. Below is a job description. If you have interest or would like to learn more, please contact me.

Robert Tavormina
Sr Technical Recruiter
MySpace.com
310-969-7474
rtavormina@myspace.com

Sr .Net Developer/MYSPACE.COM

Social Networking is one of the hottest sectors on the web in recent years. MySpace.com has emerged as the definitive leader in this space and is the highest trafficked site on the Internet in less than two years since launch. (comScore Media Metrix May Page Views). We were acquired one year ago by News Corporation and are now a division of Fox Interactive Media which includes Fox.com, Foxsports.com and a host of other internet assets. MySpace has 300 employees and is in rapid growth mode. We are the fastest growing internet company in history. We currently have 140 million users with 320,000 new users signing up per day.

Our users use MySpace to meet friends, find and listen to new bands/music, blog, plan events, play games, and participate in user forums and groups. MySpace, has revolutionized the way people interact and plan their social lives.



MySpace.com is currently growing at a tremendous pace and is looking to bring in highly qualified .Net developers. We are predominantly a Microsoft shop with most applications written in ASP.Net and C#. We have over 3000 servers running Windows 2003/SQL/Linux. We are one of the largest .Net development sites in the country and are on the cutting edge in terms of technological utilization. This is a very exciting opportunity for someone who wants a casual, fast paced environment and the ability to take their development knowledge and innovation to the next level. Below are some of the requirements.

The .NET Team at MySpace.com focuses on performance and scalability to a degree that most developers have never had a chance to experience.

Required Skills/Experience:
- 2-4+ years of solid C# experience
- 2-4+ years of ASP.NET (and the .NET 1.1 Framework) experience
- 2-4+ years of experience developing with SQL Server 2000 (including stored procedures)
- Strong knowledge of .NET Remoting (including HTTP and TCP/IP) and UDP
- a solid foundation in n-tier, Business Objects, Design Patterns, and general OOP
- Strong knowledge (and wisdom) of IIS6 and its internals
- Experience on sites under heavy loads that require meticulous attention to coding practices as they relate to performance and scalability

Preferred but not required Experience:
- Microsoft Pattern and Practice Teams Enterprise Application Blocks
- Agile Software Development (including Extreme Programming)
- Microsoft Application Center Test
- LLBLGen
- NUnit
- nANT
- Visual Studio 2005 (including Team System)
- ASP.NET 2.0, ADO.NET 2.0, AJAX (Atlas), and the .NET 2.0 Framework
- SQL Server 2005 feature set, enhancements, and changes that effect developers