Software Development Engineer - San Jose

Our Company

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen. 

We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

 

The Challenge

It is in Adobe’s DNA to change the world through digital experiences. We create products that are accessible to everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—to empower and ignite the creativity to build beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps. In addition, we seek to transform how companies interact with customers across every technological platform. If you are interested in solving sophisticated problems while making impact, Adobe is the place for you to cultivate this kind of career.

The Opportunity

The Premiere Pro Family within the Digital Video & Audio organization seeks a hardworking Software Developer to design, develop and implement solutions. As the leading Video Editing Software, Premiere Pro, we look to expand and push the innovation on video technology. This is an outstanding opportunity for a self-motivated developer to join a passionate team to help evolve Premiere Pro to continue to be the top choice for storytellers and editors of today and tomorrow.

We look forward to have you joining us on this exciting journey to provide the most amazing user experience. We aspire to hiring the best and want our employees to have an exceptional experience. Extraordinary ideas come from everywhere; the next to make impact for Premiere Pro users can be yours!

What you’ll do

• Build high-quality, innovative and fully performing software that follows coding standards, technical design and optimized for user demands
• Understand user requirements, define system functionalities and identify potential hurdles
• Write well-designed, high quality and testable code to optimize CI
• Write tests that test the high quality testable code
• Integrate software components into a fully functional software system
• Help support software verification plans and quality engineer procedures

What you need to succeed

• Some experience as a Software Developer in product/application development
• Experience designing interactive applications
• Strong coding skills in C/C++ including Boost and STL, Javascript a plus
• Work collaboratively and effectively, cross-functionally with Quality Engineering, Product Managers and Design within own team and across Creative Cloud teams, understanding Premiere Pro is part of a much greater creative ecosystem
• Thrive in agile development and learn one’s own velocity
• Enjoy being part of a team that comes up with optimal solutions to complex problems

Nice to have

• Passion for video and learning about its technologies and innovation(s)
• Strong interest in the broadcast industry standards and its trends

Discover what our employees are saying about their career experiences on the Adobe Life blog and explore the amazing benefits we offer. Also take a gander on Premiere Pro's impact on popular and impactful films like EEAAO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23TfH_xBNyY&ab_channel=AdobeVideo%26Motion

Adobe is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome and encourage diversity in the workplace regardless of race, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status.

At Adobe, you will be immersed in an exciting work environment that is recognized throughout the world on Best Companies lists. You will also be surrounded by colleagues who are committed to helping each other grow through our unique Check-In approach where ongoing feedback flows freely.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several  U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $92,100 -- $166,200 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.

At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base + commission), and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans.  Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).

In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.

Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law. Learn more.
 

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