About the Role
As the first Customer Engineer, you will own the post-sign technical lifecycle within Terminal’s enterprise accounts end-to-end. You will define production-readiness standards and implementation playbooks, working in a dedicated pod with a Strategic Account Manager and Customer Success Manager. This senior role is the operational core of the company’s growth, focusing on scaling, expansion, and retention of existing customers.
Responsibilities
- Own the technical path to production readiness, including technical solutioning, integration design, and defining the Definition of Done for each go-live.
- Enable customer technical teams and scale from the first production fleet to full fleet syncing, monitoring sync health and latency.
- Own technical escalations end-to-end, pulling in a Sales Engineer when necessary.
- Co-author the production-readiness Definition of Done, the kickoff technical playbook, and the common-issues repository.
- Add recurring issue patterns to the repository and feed structural fixes back to engineering.
- Build the system that every future Customer Engineer will inherit.
Requirements
- Delivered technical implementations for Fortune 500 customers in a post-sales context.
- Understand data engineering fundamentals: APIs, data pipelines, warehouse replication, data completeness, and latency.
- Experience managing security or data-governance reviews that block go-lives.
- Ability to communicate technical reality to executives without causing panic.
- Ability to translate customer requirements into actionable scope for engineering.
- High-urgency operator who owns escalations and drives to readiness on a dated plan.
Skills
- TypeScript
- API integration
- Data pipelines
- Warehouse replication
- Data ingestion
- Webhooks
- Queryable vehicle data
Location
- Toronto, Canada
Work Type
- Onsite
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $200,000-$235,000 on-target earnings
Benefits
- Meaningful equity
- Brand new MacBook and computer equipment
- Top-tier health/dental benefits
- Flexible healthcare spending account
- Personal spending account for professional development, fitness and wellness
- Four weeks paid time off + statutory holidays
- In-person culture with an office located in downtown Toronto
About the Company
- Terminal builds telematics data infrastructure for the commercial fleet industry, serving commercial auto insurers and fleet software companies.
- The platform accesses GPS, speeding, and vehicle data from over 330 telematics providers.
- Recently raised Series A led by Battery Ventures.
- Backed by Y Combinator, Golden Ventures, Penske Transportation Solutions, and Intact Private Capital.
- Team works together in person in Toronto, processing terabytes of vehicle data daily.
