Software Engineer Resume Example

Hiring managers for software roles skim for three things: what you built, how big it was, and what changed because of it. This example keeps the stack visible and every bullet tied to an outcome.

Use this example Template: ATS Software Engineer

Alex Rivera

Senior Software Engineer
San Francisco, CA 94105 | (415) 555-0201 | alex.rivera@example.com | linkedin.com/in/alexriverase | github.com/arivera
Continued · Alex Rivera

Summary

Senior Software Engineer with 8 years building distributed systems in TypeScript and Go. Shipped platforms serving 3M+ users, reduced p95 latency 32%, and mentored engineers at Stripe, Airbnb, and Twilio. Software Engineer with mid-career depth across product, people, and P&L-adjacent outcomes. Known for quantified delivery, cross-functional leadership, and clear operating cadence. Sample profile is intentionally dense so you mostly edit, not invent.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer
Stripe · San Francisco, CA
03/2021 – Present

Payment platform reliability and developer APIs.

$35MDaily volume
99.99%Uptime
32%Latency down
Reconciliation Service
Event-sourced settlement
  • Processed $35M daily with 99.99% uptime
  • Cut duplicate settlements 90% with idempotent consumers
  • Shipped versioned APIs used by 200+ partners
Latency Program
API p95 reduction
  • Reduced p95 32% via caching and query redesign
  • Rolled out SLO error budgets to 5 teams
  • Cut cycle time 28% across 3 teams
Platform Migration (Stripe)
Multi-region service cutover
  • Migrated 40% of monolith traffic with zero Sev-1s
  • Cut p95 latency 35% via caching and query redesign
  • Introduced SLO error budgets adopted by 6 teams
Key achievements
  • Mentored 4 engineers; established review bar
  • Open-sourced tracing helpers used by 10 services
  • Reduced incident MTTR with runbook automation at Stripe 18m · 2024
  • Led vendor renegotiation that protected margin $1.2M · 2023
Stripe Engineering Excellence · 2023
Software Engineer II
Airbnb · San Francisco, CA
06/2018 – 02/2021

Host tools and bookings modernization.

500K+Hosts
38%Monolith cut
3×Scope owned
Host Dashboard
React rewrite
  • Shipped WCAG 2.1 AA features to 500K+ hosts
  • Migrated 38% of booking modules to services
  • Raised SLA attainment from 92% to 99.2%
Platform Migration (Airbnb)
Multi-region service cutover
  • Migrated 40% of monolith traffic with zero Sev-1s
  • Cut p95 latency 35% via caching and query redesign
  • Introduced SLO error budgets adopted by 6 teams
Operating System Redesign (Airbnb)
End-to-end workflow modernization
  • Cut cycle time 28% across 3 teams
  • Documented playbook adopted org-wide
  • Steered 6 stakeholders to a single KPI set
Key achievements
  • Peer Bonus ×3
  • Cut booking errors 20% with contract tests
  • Cut API p95 latency through redesign at Airbnb 35% · 2024
  • Owned executive status pack for steering committee 12 · 2024
Delivery Excellence · 2022
Software Engineer
Twilio · San Francisco, CA
07/2016 – 05/2018

Messaging API developer experience.

180+Partner engineers
$5M+Impact influenced
12Partners led
Dev Console
SMS/WhatsApp tooling
  • Built console used by 180+ partner engineers
  • Cut onboarding from 2 weeks to 5 days
  • Raised pipeline success from 94% to 99.6%
Platform Migration (Twilio)
Multi-region service cutover
  • Migrated 40% of monolith traffic with zero Sev-1s
  • Cut p95 latency 35% via caching and query redesign
  • Introduced SLO error budgets adopted by 6 teams
Key achievements
  • Hackathon winner — delivery receipts
  • Open-sourced tracing helpers used across services at Twilio 12 · 2023
  • Led vendor renegotiation that protected margin at Twilio $1.2M · 2023
Team Impact Award · 2024
Software Engineer Intern → Junior
Yahoo · Sunnyvale, CA
06/2015 – 06/2016

Mail search relevance.

11%Search CTR
12Partners led
25%Efficiency gain
Mail Search
Ranking features
  • Improved CTR 11% with query expansion
  • Converted after internship
  • Automated 18 weekly reports
Platform Migration (Yahoo)
Multi-region service cutover
  • Migrated 40% of monolith traffic with zero Sev-1s
  • Cut p95 latency 35% via caching and query redesign
  • Introduced SLO error budgets adopted by 6 teams
Key achievements
  • Converted from intern
  • Reduced rework through clearer acceptance criteria at Yahoo -31% · 2022
  • Open-sourced tracing helpers used across services at Yahoo 12 · 2023

Education

UC Berkeley
B.S. in Computer Science · Berkeley, CA · GPA 3.6
08/2012 – 05/2016

Skills

Languages
TypeScript 92%Go 86%Python 84%SQL 88%
Systems
Distributed Systems 90%Kubernetes 86%CI/CD 88%Observability 85%
Leadership
Tech Mentorship 88%Design Reviews 90%Incident Command 84%

Certifications

AWS Solutions Architect – Associate — Amazon Web Services · 2023 · AWS-SAA-88421
AWS Solutions Architect – Associate — Amazon Web Services · 2023 · AWS-SAA-88421 aws.amazon.com/verification
Agile Foundations — Scrum Alliance · 2021 · SAF-331

Awards

Engineering Excellence
Stripe · 2023
Reliability program
Engineering Excellence
Company Awards · 2024
Reliability & mentorship
Industry Excellence Award
Industry Association · 2024
Peer-nominated impact

Projects

Open Tracing Helpers
Shared tracing utilities adopted by 10+ services
Go, OpenTelemetry · github.com/arivera/trace-kit
Playbook Hub
Internal knowledge base for delivery standards
Notion, Loom

Languages

English · NativeSpanish · Conversational

Achievements

  • Mentored 4 engineers to promotion 4 · 2024
  • Spoke at industry meetup on delivery craft 1 · 2024
  • Built repeatable operating cadence used by peer teams Org-wide · 2024
Sample resume with a fictional person. Replace every detail with your own.

Summary example

Software engineer with [X] years building reliable, well-tested services in [stack]. Led [project] that served [N] users and improved [metric] by [X%].

Example bullet points for a Software Engineer

  • Shipped a [payments / search] service in [Go/Java] that handles [N] requests per second at p99 under [X] ms
  • Cut cloud spend for [service] by [X%] by profiling hot paths and removing redundant queries
  • Owned on-call for [N] services; reduced paging alerts by [X%] through better thresholds and runbooks
  • Built a reusable [React] component library adopted by [N] product teams
  • Mentored [N] engineers and ran a weekly design-review session for [team size] developers
  • Added contract tests across [N] microservices, catching [N] breaking changes before release
  • Built [feature] used by [N] customers, raising [conversion / retention] by [X%] in the first quarter
  • Reduced p95 API latency from [X] ms to [Y] ms by adding caching and rewriting [N] slow database queries
  • Raised automated test coverage from [X%] to [Y%], cutting production bugs per release by [Z%]
  • Designed and shipped a [service/module] that processes [N] requests per day with [99.9%] uptime

Replace the [brackets] with your own numbers and facts. Never claim results you didn't achieve.

Skills to include

  • Python
  • Java
  • Go
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • PostgreSQL
  • AWS
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • CI/CD

Tips for a Software Engineer resume

  1. Put the languages and frameworks you use daily in the summary or a dedicated skills line — ATS filters often search for them by name.
  2. Link a GitHub or portfolio only if it is current and shows work you are proud of.
  3. Prefer one line per achievement; save design details for the interview.
  4. List the scale of systems you worked on (users, requests, data volume) — it tells reviewers your level quickly.
  5. Run the built-in resume checker and paste the job description into the keyword match before you download.

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