At Relativity Space, we’re building rockets to serve today’s needs and tomorrow’s breakthroughs. Our Terran R vehicle will deliver customer payloads to orbit, meeting the growing demand for launch capacity. But that’s just the start. Achieving commercial success with Terran R will unlock new opportunities to advance science, exploration, and innovation, pioneering progress that reaches beyond the known.
Joining Relativity means becoming part of something where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level. Here, you're not just executing tasks; you're solving problems that haven’t been solved before, helping develop a rocket, a factory, and a business from the ground up. Whether you’re in propulsion, manufacturing, software, avionics, or a corporate function, you’ll collaborate across teams, shape decisions, and see your work come to life in record time. Relativity is a place where creativity and technical rigor go hand in hand, and your voice will help define the stories we’re writing together. Now is a unique moment in time where it’s early enough to leave your mark on the product, the process, and the culture, but far enough along that Terran R is tangible and picking up momentum. The most meaningful work of your career is waiting. Join us.
About the Team:
The Terrestrial Software team is building the foundation for an automated rocket factory and integrated launch platform. Their mission is to automate and streamline workflows across the entire lifecycle of Terran R, from raw material intake to launch operations and eventually manufacturing on Mars. Today, that means partnering directly with teams across design, materials, manufacturing, and test and launch to design, implement, and deploy end user enterprise-wide applications, industrial automation, data analytics infrastructure, and next-generation AI to solve real problems and accelerate progress. Long term, the team is laying the groundwork for a modular, scalable software platform that can power highly autonomous operations on Earth and beyond. This is a team for builders and thinkers who thrive on cross-functional impact and want to shape the digital backbone of our future in space.
About the Role:
As a Data Engineer II, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining the technical components of our analytics data platform. This includes building scalable data pipelines, optimizing database storage and query retrieval, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver data solutions that meet business requirements. You will work with modern data stack technologies and contribute to the overall data strategy of the organization.
- Discover new data sources for ingestion via database connections, APIs, and message queues
- Design, build, and maintain scalable and reliable data pipelines using Airbyte
- Develop and optimize base data models in Redshift using dbt
- Write efficient SQL queries to support analysis
- Observe the data monitoring systems and quality checks, and respond to issues
- Collaborate with analysts and other stakeholders to understand data requirements
- Document data models systems and administrative processes
Our Data Stack:
Airbyte, Argo, dbt, Redshift, PowerBI, Grafana.
About You:
- 2+ years of experience in data engineering or related field
- Experience with cloud data warehouses, particularly Amazon Redshift
- Experience with dbt for data transformation and modeling
- Knowledge of workflow orchestration tools like Argo or alternatives (Airflow, Prefect, Dagster)
- Strong programming skills in Python and SQL
- Experience with version control systems (Git)
- Understanding of data modeling concepts (dimensional modeling, star schema)
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
Nice to haves but not required:
- Familiarity with streaming data technologies is a plus
- Experience with Kubernetes infrastructure as code (Terraform)
- Proficiency in data pipeline tools such as Airbyte or similar ELT/ETL tools
- Experience with other cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Experience with Knowledge of data governance and security practices
- Experience with real-time data processing
- Experience administering data visualization platforms like PowerBI
At Relativity Space, we are committed to transparency and fairness in our compensation practices. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors.
Compensation is only one part of our total rewards package. Relativity Space offers competitive salary and equity, a generous PTO and sick leave policy, parental leave, an annual learning and development stipend, and more! To see some of the benefits & perks we offer, please visit here.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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Relativity Space Long Beach, California, USA Office
We have two sites in Long Beach, CA's Space Beach: "The Wormhole," a 1M sq. ft. factory, once Boeing C-17's home. Nearby, "The Portal" supports Aeon R engine production for our Terran R launch vehicle.
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