Infrastructure Engineer, Internal Systems

  • Location: Remote
  • Department: Platform
  • Employment Type: Full-time

What’s in it for you?

Paciva’s pace comes from the tooling built to build with. The company invests heavily in context and harness engineering, which is how a small team ships at the rate it does. Keeping that maintainable is the point of this role, and you will be able to judge the current state for yourself during the interview.

You would own that internal machinery. Every hour you save the team compounds across everything the company ships.

About the team and the opportunity

This role is unusual, so read it carefully. You are not maintaining a build pipeline. You are building the systems that let a small team cover ground that normally takes a much larger one. That means development harnesses, review automation, test generation, environment management, and the internal tools nobody else has time to build.

You will be handed a working version of all of it and expected to make it something the company depends on.

What the role covers

You own the internal systems the team builds with. That covers development harnesses, review automation, test and evaluation infrastructure, environment and secret management, and deployment across cloud and local targets. You keep technical debt visible and paid down on a schedule rather than in a panic. You document everything, since internal tooling only creates leverage when other people can use it without you in the room.

What you will work on

  • Own internal development harnesses and the automation around code review
  • Build test and evaluation infrastructure that catches regressions before customers do
  • Manage environments, secrets, and deployment across cloud and local targets
  • Keep technical debt visible and paid down on a schedule, not in a panic
  • Build the internal tooling that lets one person cover a domain
  • Instrument engineering throughput so pace is measured, not claimed
  • Document everything, because leverage that only you understand is not leverage

What we need from you

  • 5+ years in infrastructure, developer platform, or internal tools
  • Deep comfort with AI assisted development and its failure modes
  • Judgment about when automation helps and when it hides a problem
  • Strong security instincts around secrets, access, and customer data
  • Preference for making others fast over shipping the visible feature
  • Clear technical writing as a habit, not a chore

Working at Paciva

About Paciva

Paciva is an early stage company with people in Miami, Florida and Austin, Texas. The team works fully remote. Pax is an executive assistant for individuals and a chief of staff to organizations. It connects to the services you already use and does real work end to end, rather than reporting back on what needs doing.

The company is founder led and privately held. Every role we post is a first hire for its domain, which means you set the standard rather than inherit one, and you work with the founders directly rather than through layers.

Compensation and benefits

Compensation is set by role scope, experience, skills, location, market data, and internal equity. Every role carries meaningful equity, because the person who builds a domain from nothing should own part of what they build. For sales roles, compensation combines base salary with variable incentive pay, and the target is stated as on target earnings.

We cover pay and benefits in full in the first conversation, before you spend time on a process. Ask early and we will answer.

Remote work and travel

Every role here is remote. Paciva has people in Miami and Austin, and the team works across time zones. That puts weight on clear written communication, ownership, practical collaboration, and dependable follow through. Most roles include occasional travel for team meetings, customer sessions, company events, or off sites.

How we hire

We read every application. If your experience does not match the list above but you have done work that shows you can do this job, put that at the top.

The process is short and the founders run it. You will spend time on a real problem from the role rather than a hypothetical, and you will meet the people you would work with every day, because there are not many of us. We tell you where you stand at each step and we do not leave anyone waiting.

You are welcome to use AI tools when you apply. We build them. What we want to see is your judgment, so tell us where you used a tool and what you changed about its output.

Accommodations and applicant privacy

If you need a reasonable accommodation to take part in any stage of this process, tell us. You do not need to share medical detail. We will work out what lets you participate fully.

For how we handle the information you send us when you apply, see our applicant privacy notice at https://trust.paciva.ai/ 

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Equal opportunity

Paciva is an equal opportunity employer. We make employment decisions based on qualifications, merit, business needs, and role fit. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status, pregnancy, caregiver status, or any other status protected by applicable law.