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SpaceX (or rather, Elon Musk) is famous for pushing their developers hard. Elon sent his team to live on a remote island in the Pacific [1] where they were asked to stay until they could (literally!) launch.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-elon-musk-spacex/

Fantastic read.

I don't work in the manned space part of NASA and the software I deal with isn't critical, so I can't say. Most of what I know about Flight software development comes from co-workers who've done that work. They speak of getting written permission to swap two lines of code. That sort of thing. I think it would be cool to have code I wrote running on Mars, but I don't know if I could cope with that development environment.

I have some friends on the mechanical engineering side of things at SpaceX and can definitely say that 9-5 work hours don't even seem to be a suggestion. It likely varies team to team though.