# Software engineer

- **Id**: https://logicsrc.com/openskill/software-engineer
- **Kind**: occupation
- **Domain**: Computing
- **Language**: en
- **Aliases**: software engineering professional

A role that applies engineering judgment to the design, implementation, verification and evolution of software systems.

## Includes

- System design, software quality, operational constraints and lifecycle tradeoffs.
- Programming and collaboration across the system's requirements and interfaces.

## Related

- [Developer](https://logicsrc.com/openskill/developer)
- [Software development](https://logicsrc.com/openskill/software-development)
- [Computer science](https://logicsrc.com/openskill/computer-science)

## Taxonomy

- **Close match**: [O*NET: Software Developers](https://www.onetonline.org/link/summary/15-1252.00)

This relationship is a mapping proposed by the OpenSkill publisher. The source concept was reviewed on 2026-09-13; no taxonomy release is asserted.

## License

Original description: CC BY 4.0, Profullstack, Inc. Linked taxonomies and example artifacts retain their own terms.