Senior Database Reliability Engineer - Scale, DR & Automation

InvestedintheMission; Hawthorne (CA); On-site; USD 155,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

401(k) plan

Medical, vision, dental insurance

Parental leave

Paid vacation and holidays

Sick leave

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Sr. Database Reliability Engineer to own health, uptime, and performance of PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, and ClickHouse databases. You will automate routine tasks with Python, develop monitoring, and own disaster recovery strategies while collaborating with software teams.

The role requires strong Linux, server/storage infrastructure knowledge and proven incident response capabilities, with opportunities for leadership and cross-training.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or engineering or 10+ years exp in lieu of degree.
• 8+ years of experience optimizing SQL queries and data replication.
• 8+ years experience developing monitoring tools and tuning databases.

Responsibilities

• Own the health, uptime and performance of PostgreSQL/Oracle/MySQL/Clickhouse databases.
• Partner with internal customers to understand challenges and plan improvements.
• Develop code to automate routine tasks using Python, bash, Ansible or similar.
• Design, deploy, maintain, and own database monitoring.
• Provide backup/restore solutions and disaster recovery testing.
• Identify and optimize abusive queries for efficiency.
• Document actions and configurations; create runbooks.
• Support cross-training and foster growth of staff; participate in on-call rotation.

Skills

SQL optimization

Monitoring tools

Python

Linux

Database administration

Disaster recovery

SQL replication

Oracle RAC

ClickHouse

Git

Ansible

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering

Tools

PostgreSQL

Oracle

MySQL

ClickHouse

Ansible

Git

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Sr. Database Reliability Engineer to own health, uptime, and performance of PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, and ClickHouse databases. You will automate routine tasks with Python, develop monitoring, and own disaster recovery strategies while collaborating with software teams.

The role requires strong Linux, server/storage infrastructure knowledge and proven incident response capabilities, with opportunities for leadership and cross-training.