Software Engineer Resume Example (2026)

A complete software engineer resume example: one page, single column, and quantified. Every bullet leads with a verb and ends in a number, because an engineering resume is judged on scope and impact rather than responsibilities. Open it in the editor, replace the content with your own, and export a PDF.

Why this software engineer resume works

• Bullets open with what was built or fixed, not with "Responsible for"
• Impact is measured — latency, error rate, users, cost — not adjectives
• The skills line names concrete technologies an ATS keyword filter looks for
• Links are written in full so a parser reads them as text, not as hidden markup
• One page, single column: no sidebar for an ATS to interleave

Priya Raghavan — Software Engineer

priya.raghavan@email.com · +1 (206) 555-0148 · linkedin.com/in/priyaraghavan

Summary

• Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with 5 years building payment and data infrastructure at consumer scale. Cut a checkout failure rate by two thirds, took a service from 400ms to 90ms at p95, and mentored three engineers through their first on-call rotation.

Experience

• Software Engineer II — Northwind Payments (Mar 2023 – Present)
• Rebuilt the checkout retry pipeline in Go, cutting failed transactions from 4.1% to 1.3% and recovering roughly $2.4M in annual volume
• Reduced p95 API latency from 410ms to 90ms by adding read-through caching and removing three N+1 query paths
• Designed the idempotency layer now used by every payment service, eliminating duplicate charges during provider outages
• Mentored 3 engineers through onboarding and their first on-call rotation, cutting escalations to senior staff by half
• Software Engineer — Loomis Data (Jul 2021 – Feb 2023)
• Shipped a Kafka ingestion service processing 1.8M events per minute with an at-least-once delivery guarantee
• Migrated 40 batch jobs from cron to Airflow, cutting pipeline failures by 70% and making reruns self-service
• Built the internal metrics dashboard in React and TypeScript used daily by 120 engineers and analysts

Projects

• pgshadow — Postgres query replay (2025)
• Open-source tool that replays production query traffic against a staging database; 1.4K GitHub stars and used by 30+ teams to catch regressions before deploy

Education

• B.E. Computer Science — PES University, Bangalore (2017 – 2021), CGPA 8.9/10

Skills

• Go, Python, TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, gRPC, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, Distributed Systems, System Design

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