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Software Engineer Resume Example & ATS Keywords

Recruiters skim a software-engineer resume in under 7 seconds — and an ATS reads it long before they do. The strongest engineering resumes lead with measurable impact (latency, throughput, cost, uptime), name the stack explicitly, and quantify scale.

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Strong bullet examples

Lead each bullet with a strong verb and a number. These are recruiter-ready models — adapt them with your real metrics.

Led migration of monolith to 12 microservices on Kubernetes, cutting p95 latency 42% and AWS spend $340k/yr.
Built CI pipeline (GitHub Actions + ArgoCD) reducing deploy time from 38 min to 4 min across 18 services.
Shipped real-time collaboration features for 1.2M MAU using WebSockets and CRDTs; zero downtime in 9 months.
Owned design and rollout of feature-flag system adopted by 6 teams; cut incident MTTR by 51%.

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