Software Engineer Resume Example
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Alex Morgan

Senior Software Engineer

San Francisco, CA · alex.morgan@example.com · (415) 555-0143

Summary

Senior software engineer with 7+ years building scalable backend systems for high-growth startups. Shipped distributed services handling 10M+ daily requests; reduced infra costs by 38% through query optimization and autoscaling overhaul.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer · Northwave Labs

2022 — Present

Designed and shipped event-driven order pipeline cutting median latency from 480ms to 110ms across 14M daily transactions.
Led a 4-engineer team migrating monolith to 9 services on Kubernetes; zero customer-facing downtime.
Authored RFC adopted as the company-wide standard for async-job retries; reduced on-call pages by 62%.

Software Engineer · Bluepath

2019 — 2022

Built A/B testing platform used by 30+ product teams, measuring 200+ experiments simultaneously.
Refactored hot-path Postgres queries; p95 latency dropped 71% and database costs fell €4.2K/mo.

Education

B.S. Computer Science · UC Berkeley

2012 — 2016 · GPA 3.8 · Dean's List

Skills

Python · Go · TypeScript · AWS · Kubernetes · PostgreSQL · Kafka · System Design

FAQ — Software Engineer resumes

What should a software engineer resume include?

Lead with a 2-3 line summary, then 2-4 recent roles with measurable impact bullets (latency, scale, cost). Include a skills section with languages, frameworks, and infra. Education usually goes last unless you're a recent grad.

How long should a software engineer resume be?

One page for under 10 years of experience, two pages for senior/staff+. ATS systems don't penalize length, but recruiters skim — keep the top half of page one strong.

Should I list every programming language I know?

List the 6-10 you can demonstrate in an interview. Padding the skills section with tools you touched once weakens the rest.

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