Database Reliability Engineer at SpaceX

Department: Information Technology - CorporateEducation: education_required

Compensation

$135,000 – $175,000/yr

Location: Hawthorne, California
Type: Full-time
Level: senior
Posted: Aug 26, 2026

Description

SpaceX is hiring a Database Reliability Engineer to support Microsoft SQL and PowerBI technologies across its IT Engineering organization. The role focuses on database monitoring, troubleshooting, schema and query optimization, data migration and transformation, backup and restore, disaster recovery, automation, documentation, and on-call support. Candidates need a relevant bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of IT experience, or 7+ years of database reliability or DevOps experience; the position is onsite and pays $135,000–$175,000 annually.

Required Skills

Microsoft SQL
PowerBI
Root cause analysis
PowerShell
Database monitoring
Disaster recovery
SQL Server
Postgres
MySQL
ClickHouse

Additional Information

Minimum Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or engineering, or 7+ years of database reliability or DevOps experience in lieu of a degree
Required Previous Experiences: 5+ years of IT experience
7+ years of database monitoring and tuning experience
5+ years of SQL query optimization and data replication and transformation experience
Preferred Qualifications: Proficiency in SQL Server and at least one other database technology
SQL Server resiliency and high availability
Large critical database scaling
Configuration management automation
Data structure design and modeling
SQL Server hardware, SAN, virtualization, and networking
Development cycle knowledge
Adjacent database technologies
SQL and PowerBI reporting
Big data and data warehouse concepts
Translation Company Name: SpaceX