Key Takeaways

  • 75% of U.S. employers use automated applicant tracking systems to screen resumes before a human reviews them (Harvard Business School & Accenture, 2021)
  • The most common ATS failures are missing keywords, incompatible formatting, and incorrect file types
  • ResumeGeni scores your resume across 8 parsing layers — modeled on the same steps enterprise ATS platforms like Workday, Greenhouse, and Taleo use to evaluate candidates

How ATS Resume Scoring Works

Applicant tracking systems parse your resume into structured data — extracting your name, contact info, work history, skills, and education — then score how well that data matches the job requirements. Many ATS rejections happen because the parser couldn't extract critical fields, not because the candidate wasn't qualified.

LayerWhat It ChecksWhy It Matters
Document extractionFile format, encoding, readabilityCorrupted or image-only PDFs fail immediately
Layout analysisTables, columns, headers, footersMulti-column layouts break field extraction
Section detectionExperience, education, skills headingsNon-standard headings cause sections to be missed
Field mappingName, email, phone, dates, titlesMissing contact info is a common cause of immediate rejection
Keyword matchingJob-specific terms, skills, certificationsKeyword overlap affects recruiter search visibility and ATS scoring
Chronology checkDate ordering, gap detectionReverse-chronological order is expected by most ATS
QuantificationMetrics, numbers, measurable outcomesQuantified achievements help human reviewers and some scoring models
Confidence scoringOverall parse quality and completenessLow-confidence parses get deprioritized in results

Frequently Asked Questions

Is ResumeGeni free?
Yes. ResumeGeni is currently in beta — ATS analysis, scoring, and initial improvement suggestions are free with no signup required. Full guidance and saved reports may require a free account.
What file formats are supported?
PDF, DOCX, DOC, TXT, RTF, ODT, and Apple Pages. PDF and DOCX are recommended for best ATS compatibility.
How is the ATS score calculated?
Your resume is processed through an 8-layer parsing pipeline that extracts structured data the same way enterprise ATS platforms do. The score reflects how completely and accurately your resume can be parsed, plus how well your content matches common ATS ranking criteria.
Can ATS read PDF resumes?
Yes, but not all PDFs are equal. Text-based PDFs parse well. Image-only PDFs (scanned documents) and PDFs with complex tables or multi-column layouts often fail ATS parsing. Our analyzer will flag these issues.
How do I improve my ATS score?
Focus on three areas: use a clean single-column format, include keywords from the job description naturally in your experience bullets, and ensure all sections (contact, experience, education, skills) use standard headings.

ATS Guides & Resources

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Senior Software Engineer, Reliabilty

Veeamsoftware · Bangalore, India

Full time Employee Regular Hybrid Engineering Services P4 Engineering Services India {'name': 'Ewa Ford', 'email': '[email protected]', 'user_id': 4439145101, 'employee_id': 'EID114119'} {'name': 'Jodi Litterst', 'email': '[email protected]', 'user_id': 4193675101, 'employee_id':

Veeam is the Data and AI Trust Company, specializing in helping organizations ensure their data and AI are fully understood, secured, and resilient to enable the acceleration of safe AI at scale. As the market leader in both data resilience and data security posture management, Veeam is built for the convergence of identity, data, security, and AI risk. Headquartered in Seattle with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide, who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Join us as we go fearlessly forward together, growing, learning, and making a real impact for some of the world’s biggest brands.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Reliability, you will serve as a hands-on technical leader within the SRE team, guiding senior engineers, influencing product development teams, and ensuring the systems we operate are built to be reliable, scalable, and observable from the ground up.

You will drive strategic initiatives, mentor others in the practice of SRE, and help define architectural best practices across our platform. This role is pivotal in aligning teams, enforcing high standards, and scaling SRE principles globally within Veeam.

Yours tasks will include

Reliability Engineering & Resilience

  • Design and evolve infrastructure to be highly available, fault tolerant, and scalable across public clouds (initially Azure, with future expansion plans to other providers).

  • Establish and maintain SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets that define and enforce reliability objectives.

  • Lead incident response, analysis, blameless postmortems, and sharing sessions in order to maximize learning across our entire engineering team and driving changes to the entire socio-technical engineering system.

Observability & Operational Excellence

  • Drive adoption of deep observability practices, ensuring telemetry, logs, metrics, and tracing are comprehensive and actionable.

  • Develop automation and self-healing tools to reduce toil and support Veeam’s fleet management strategy.

  • Participate in on-call rotations and lead operational excellence across the stack.

Engineering at Scale

  • Contribute to infrastructure as code (IaC), CI/CD systems, deployment automation, and scalable config management.

  • Integrate and extend monitoring and chaos engineering tools to validate reliability assumptions under load and failure conditions.

  • Implement testing strategies, canary deployments, and release validation pipelines to protect production environments and allow teams to safely deliver new features as quickly as possible.

Collaboration & Culture

  • Embed within product and platform teams to champion reliability from design through delivery.

  • Contribute to a learning culture focused on continuous improvement and proactive risk management.

  • Mentor engineers and advocate for DevOps/SRE best practices across global teams.

What we expect from you:

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience in a Software Engineering role with at least 2 years in Site Reliability, Platform Engineering, or similar.
  • Deep experience building systems on public cloud providers (Azure preferred)

  • Strong programming skills in JS, Node, Typescript, Go, Java, C#, or similar.

  • Proven track record in delivering monitoring, alerting, and observability tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).

  • Experience with IaC tools like Terraform/Pulumi, and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes).

  • Solid understanding of distributed systems, cloud networking, and cloud-native system design.

  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills across geographies and disciplines.

Will be an added advantage:

  • Experience working on large-scale B2B SaaS platforms.

  • Background in chaos engineering, resilience testing, performance testing, load testing, or incident learning programs.

  • Familiarity with compliance frameworks (e.g., ISO, SOC 2, GDPR, FEDRAMP/CMMC).

We offer:

  • 18 paid vacation days, plus 4 extra global VeeaMe Days for self-care and 24 paid volunteer hours annually through Veeam Cares
    Private medical coverage for you and up to four dependents
  • Life, accident, and disability insurance with enhanced coverage
  • Annual flexible wellbeing allowance for physical and mental wellness
  • Free confidential counselling and coaching via Employee Assistance Program (EAP), including legal and financial advice
  • Meal, fuel, and transportation benefits based on work arrangement
  • Daycare reimbursement and safe cab facility for eligible employees
  • Opportunities to learn and grow through on-demand libraries (LinkedIn Learning, O’Reilly), mentoring, workshops, and learning events like our annual Global Day of Learning

Please note: If the applicant is permanently located outside India, Veeam reserves the right to decline the application.


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