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Software Engineer resume example

Engineering resumes are read by recruiters for stack and scale, and by engineers for what you actually shipped. This one leads with systems and numbers, keeps the stack visible in grouped skills, and gives every bullet a concrete outcome.

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Maya Chen

Software Engineer — Backend & Distributed Systems

maya.chen@email.com · +1 (206) 555-0138 · Seattle, WA · linkedin.com/in/mayachen · github.com/mayachen

Summary

Backend engineer with 5 years building high-throughput services in Go and Java. Designed the event pipeline that carries 40M messages a day at Halyard, cut p99 latency of the order API by 62%, and led the on-call rotation for a team of eight. Strongest at data-intensive systems and making them boring to operate.

Experience

Software Engineer II — Halyard Logistics, Seattle, WA

Jun 2022 – Present

  • Designed and shipped a Kafka-based event pipeline handling 40M messages/day, replacing nightly batch jobs and cutting shipment-status lag from 6 hours to under a minute
  • Reduced p99 latency of the order API from 840 ms to 320 ms by adding read replicas, request coalescing and a Redis cache with 97% hit rate
  • Led the migration of 9 services from EC2 to Kubernetes with zero customer-facing downtime, cutting monthly infrastructure spend by $18K
  • Ran the on-call rotation for 8 engineers; wrote the runbooks that reduced mean time to recovery from 55 to 14 minutes

Software Engineer — Brightline Health, Portland, OR

Jul 2020 – May 2022

  • Built the claims-validation service in Java/Spring that processed 1.2M claims a month with 99.98% uptime
  • Introduced contract tests between 6 internal services, reducing integration bugs found in staging by 45%
  • Mentored 2 interns through their first production deployments; both received return offers

Education

B.S. Computer Science, University of Washington, Seattle, WA · 2016 – 2020 · GPA 3.7

Skills

Languages: Go, Java, Python, SQL, TypeScript

Systems: Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, gRPC

Practices: Distributed systems, Observability, Incident response, Code review, Mentoring

Projects

queuewatch (2024) — Open-source CLI that graphs consumer lag across Kafka clusters. 1.4K GitHub stars; adopted by two teams at Halyard for capacity planning

Why this resume works

  • The summary states the scale (40M messages a day, p99 cut by 62%) before anything else — an engineering manager can place the candidate in ten seconds.
  • Every bullet pairs an action with a measured result: latency, cost, MTTR, bug counts. None of them say "responsible for".
  • Skills are grouped into languages, systems and practices, so a recruiter scanning for "Kafka" or "Kubernetes" finds them without reading prose.
  • One open-source project with a real adoption signal beats a list of tutorial projects.

Skills to include on a software engineer resume

Go or Java · Python · SQL · Distributed systems · Kafka · PostgreSQL · Redis · Kubernetes · AWS · CI/CD · Observability · System design

Templates that suit this role

Questions

Should a software engineer resume list every technology I have touched?
No. List what you would be comfortable being interviewed on, grouped by type. A list of 40 tools reads as padding; 12–18 real ones read as a profile.
How long should it be?
One page for under eight years of experience. Two pages are fine once the second page is full of things that matter, not older roles listed for completeness.
Do I need a projects section?
Only if the project shows something the jobs do not: a language, open-source adoption, or a domain. One strong project is better than three weak ones.

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