Senior engineer resume guide
At senior level, hiring teams look for scope and judgment: architecture decisions, leadership, and durable impact.
What to emphasize
- • Systems ownership and end-to-end delivery
- • Architecture tradeoffs (latency, cost, reliability)
- • Technical leadership (mentoring, reviews, standards)
- • Cross-functional execution and stakeholder alignment
Bullet examples
Led the redesign of a checkout service (event-driven + idempotency), improving success rate by 2.3% and reducing incident volume by 20%.
Defined API and observability standards across 4 teams, cutting onboarding time by ~30% and improving SLA compliance to 99.95%.