Resume example · Engineering
Software Engineer resume example
Software engineers are hired to ship working systems and keep them working. The resume has to show both halves.
What we would lead with
- Scope: the size of the systems you owned, not the number of languages you have touched
- Evidence of shipping: things that reached production and stayed there
- How you made other engineers faster, if you are past mid-level
The mistake we would warn you about
Listing every technology ever encountered. A twenty-item skills list reads as a beginner padding the page; six things you can be interviewed on reads as an engineer.
Bullet points that work for software engineers
Each one opens with an action verb, says what was done, and ends with a result.
- Rebuilt the deployment pipeline, cutting median release time from 42 minutes to under 6 and ending weekend deploys.
- Migrated 42 services from EC2 to Kubernetes with zero customer-facing downtime across nine months.
- Cut p99 checkout latency from 1.8s to 340ms by replacing a synchronous fan-out with a queue.
- Reduced cloud spend $180,000 a year by rightsizing 300 instances and retiring 14 idle services.
Skills to list as a software engineer
Languages
TypeScriptGoPythonSQL
Infrastructure
AWSKubernetesTerraformPostgreSQL
Practices
Distributed systemsObservabilityCode review