Technology
Software Engineer Resume Example
A modern, ATS-optimized software engineer resume highlighting impact, scale, and stack — built to pass keyword screens at top tech companies.
Top ATS keywords for Software Engineer
TypeScriptReactNode.jsAWSPostgreSQLCI/CDSystem DesignMicroservicesDockerKubernetes
Writing tips for this role
- Lead bullets with impact (latency, uptime, revenue, users) before tools used.
- Include languages, frameworks, cloud, and databases as concrete skills — ATS parses them literally.
- Quantify scale: requests/sec, dataset size, team size, deploy frequency.
Jordan Rivera
Senior Software Engineer
jordan.rivera@example.com+1 (415) 555-0190San Francisco, CAgithub.com/jriveralinkedin.com/in/jordanrivera
Summary
Senior software engineer with 7+ years building distributed systems and developer platforms. Shipped services handling 50k req/sec with 99.99% uptime and led migrations that cut infra cost by 38%.
Experience
Senior Software Engineer · Stripe-like Payments CoMar 2022 – Present
Remote
- Led migration of monolith to event-driven microservices on AWS, reducing p99 latency by 62%.
- Designed sharded Postgres + Redis architecture serving 50k req/sec at 99.99% uptime.
- Mentored 4 engineers and ran the on-call rotation across 3 critical services.
Software Engineer · Northwind CloudJul 2019 – Feb 2022
- Built TypeScript SDK adopted by 1,200+ internal services for tracing and metrics.
- Cut CI build times from 22 min to 4 min via Docker layer caching and test sharding.
- Shipped Kubernetes autoscaler that reduced compute spend by $480k/year.
Education
University of California, Berkeley2014 – 2018
B.S., Computer Science
Skills
TypeScript • Go • React • Node.js • PostgreSQL • Redis • AWS • Kubernetes • Docker • Terraform • GraphQL • System Design