Senior Engineer Resume Examples

Senior/Staff Engineer Resume

Demonstrate system-level thinking, org influence, and measurable business wins. Two pages are acceptable if packed with signal.

What to Emphasize

• Architecture decisions and trade-offs (ADRs/RFCs).
• Reliability, cost, performance, and security outcomes.
• Cross-team leadership: mentoring, standards, reviews.

Impact Bullets

• Led migration to event-driven architecture; MTTR −40%, p99 −35%, infra −22%.
• Instituted SLOs and error budgets across 8 services; incident frequency −28%.
• Coached 4 engineers to promotion through design sessions and growth plans.

Two-Page Template (HTML)

<h1>Morgan Patel</h1>
<p>Remote • morgan@patel.dev • linkedin.com/in/morganpatel • github.com/morganp</p>

<h2>Executive Summary</h2>
<p>Staff Engineer specializing in distributed systems (Go/Python, AWS, Kafka). Org-wide reliability and cost wins.</p>

<h2>Core Skills</h2>
<p>Architecture, Distributed Systems, Observability, SRE, Security, Cost Optimization</p>

<h2>Experience</h2>
<h3>NeoPay — Staff Engineer (2020–Present)</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Event-driven payments: p99 −35%, MTTR −40%, infra −22%.</li>
  <li>SLOs/error budgets across 8 services; incidents −28%.</li>
  <li>Mentored 4 engineers to Senior.</li>
</ul>

<h2>Selected Projects</h2>
<h3>Observability Platform (OpenTelemetry)</h3>
<p>Org-wide tracing + logging standardization, reducing debugging time.</p>
                    

Common Mistakes

• Overweighting tech lists; underweighting outcomes.
• No evidence of mentorship or cross-team impact.
• Vague scope (“helped build”) without ownership and scale.