In this cozy tech vlog, I’m taking you through a real on-call day as a software engineer at Amazon in the Vancouver offices—aka the kind of day that’s way less “building shiny new features” and way more “scrolling through spreadsheets looking for numbers that are scary.” We also had a 5.1 earthquake (which was honestly so weird because why did nobody get under their desk??), and I chat about what day-to-day work actually looks like when your team is dealing with a heavy on-call load. I show what I do when I’m on call (this was my fourth shift), how I handle tickets, and what happens when you get paged and you don’t know how to fix something right away: I check runbooks, look through resolved tickets for similar issues, and then ask in Slack or bring it up in stand-up. I also talk about work-life balance, team dynamics, and the kind of “detective work” I do while investigating migrations. At the end, I switch into HR Sarah mode and review two resumes with practical tips: quality over quantity for projects, writing specific bullets (what you did, what you used, and impact), and using ATS-friendly formatting like Jake’s Resume Template. If you’re aiming for Amazon (or honestly any SWE role), these are easy changes that can make your resume way stronger.