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Software Engineer Resume Example

Software engineering resumes get filtered for the wrong reason more often than the wrong skills. Use this example as a parsing-safe baseline: ATS-friendly layout, real bullet phrasing, and the hard-skill keywords recruiters actually grep for.

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Software Engineer — Full-stack, Distributed Systems

Professional Summary

Software engineer with 5+ years shipping production services in TypeScript and Go. Comfortable across the stack: built customer-facing React apps, designed event-driven backends, and owned the CI/CD that ships them. Strong on observability and on-call discipline — services I've owned average under 5 minutes mean time to detection.

Technical Skills

  • JavaScript / TypeScript
  • Python
  • Go
  • React / Next.js
  • Node.js
  • PostgreSQL, Redis
  • AWS (Lambda, RDS, S3)
  • Docker, Kubernetes
  • REST / gRPC / GraphQL
  • CI/CD (GitHub Actions, CircleCI)
  • Observability (Datadog, Sentry, OpenTelemetry)

Sample Experience Bullets

  • Reduced p95 checkout latency by 38% by replacing a synchronous N+1 join with a denormalised projection in Postgres; cut DB CPU 22%.
  • Shipped a Next.js + TypeScript redesign of the billing dashboard used by 12k internal admins; reduced support tickets about pricing display by 61% quarter-over-quarter.
  • Led the migration of 14 services from a monorepo Lambda setup to ECS Fargate, cutting cold-start latency and saving $4.2k/month in AWS spend.
  • Wrote the team's incident-response runbook used during 3 SEV-1s; my services hit MTTD under 5 minutes on rotation.

How to write a software engineer resume

Recruiters at scale-ups scan for the hard skills first (languages, cloud, databases), then verify with bullet evidence. Put the stack in a dedicated 'Technical Skills' block above experience, not buried at the end.

Quantify when you can. 'Improved performance' is filler — '38% lower p95 latency, 22% lower DB CPU' is signal.

Avoid 'passionate', 'team player', 'go-getter'. Avoid skill-bar graphics, two-column layouts, headshots, and tables — most ATS parsers strip them and your content with them.

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