Simple Cover Letter

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\signature{First Last}
\address{First Last \\ 123 Street \\ City, State ZIP \\ [email protected] \\ +1 555 123 4567}

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\begin{letter}{Hiring Manager \\ Company Name \\ 456 Corporate Ave \\ City, State ZIP}

\opening{Dear Hiring Manager,}

I am writing to apply for the Senior Software Engineer position at Company Name
as advertised on your careers page. With eight years of experience building
scalable backend systems at Stripe and Airbnb, I am excited about the
opportunity to contribute to Company Name's mission.

In my current role at Stripe, I led the migration of the billing service from a
monolithic architecture to microservices, reducing p99 latency by 42\% while
serving millions of requests per second. I also designed a rate-limiting layer
that handles 2.4 million requests per second at peak. This combination of
systems design and delivery is what I understand Company Name values most in
senior engineers.

Beyond delivery, I enjoy mentoring. Of the four engineers I have mentored at
Stripe, two have been promoted within 18 months. I am drawn to Company Name
specifically because of your published engineering culture, the recent open
sourcing of Project X, and the opportunity to work on payments infrastructure
at a larger scale than I have operated at to date.

I have enclosed my r\'esum\'e. I would welcome the opportunity to discuss how my
background and interests might align with what your team needs. Thank you for
considering my application.

\closing{Sincerely,}

\encl{R\'esum\'e}

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