Panther Express is based in NYC in the Flatiron District. Sure, it's home to some of the best shopping and eating in the world, but we think you'll find the people and environment inside the Panther office to be even more interesting. Our people are among the brightest and the best technologists and business professionals out there. Together, we form the brain behind Panther and share the common goal of growing, building and optimizing the most reliable, affordable CDN with unparalleled infrastructure and support.
The Panther team is small, but we're growing fast. That means big-time opportunity for you. You're not taking a programming job at some random corporation. You're becoming part of a dynamic organization where unlimited expansion is part of our daily bread. Your independent thought and intelligence is not just appreciated. It's required.
Think you're up to the challenge?
Check out the listings below and contact us if you're ready to be the next Panther Express prodigy. Please send your resume to Sales Jobs for sales positions or Tech Jobs for technical positions.
Sales Executive
A salesperson with start-up experience and the ability to work in a fast-moving and challenging environment... more »
Bussiness Solutions Architect/Sales Engineer
To assist in working with top tier Internet properties to evangelize and deploy cutting edge content delivery network... more »
Implementation Engineer
An implementation engineer to work with top tier Internet properties to deploy our content delivery technology... more »
Senior Software Engineer
A senior software engineer with expert knowledge of Java NIO; distributed systems; TCP/IP, HTTP, and DNS; Linux... more »
Software Engineer
A software engineer with solid Java, networking, and system architecture experience... more »
QA Engineer
A QA engineer with solid Java and distributed systems testing experience... more »
Customer Support Engineer
A customer support engineer skilled at working directly with customers to resolve production issues... more »
Sales Executive
Panther Express is seeking a salesperson with start-up experience and the ability to work in a fast-moving and challenging environment.
This individual needs to be able to generate new business through lead generation and sales execution follow-through. The primary target market for Panther's offering is web publishers and ecommerce players with a significant Internet presence, so an established Rolodex and familiarity with the market is a plus. Deal size will be range from $25k to $1 million. Salary is commensurate with experience. Commissions are uncapped.
Required Skills and Experience
- Minimum of three years successful outside sales experience preferably in a technology, Internet, or online media related business.
- Ability to communicate the business benefits of a solution, value proposition and ideas succinctly at all levels throughout prospect organizations
- Possess strong organizational, prioritization, and time-management skills, and attention to detail
- Results-oriented, self-motivated, energetic, professional, mature, and reliable
- Exceptional ability to juggle multiple opportunities concurrently
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- Proven team player
- Travel requirements presently light, but could be as high as 25% in the future.
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Business Solutions Architect/Sales Engineer
Panther Express is seeking a strong Business Solutions Architect (BSA) to assist in working with top tier Internet properties to evangelize and deploy of cutting edge content delivery technology.
This critical function within the organization will provide high-visibility for individuals seeking growth.
The BSA will utilize both business and technical acumen to gather and understand a prospect’s business and technical needs to effectively communicate Panther’s value proposition and appropriate solution. This fast-paced, high-growth environment requires a high-energy individual with the ability to handle multiple accounts simultaneously. The BSA will drive revenues by managing the technical pre-sales and deployment processes.
The position has the unique opportunity to work with multiple organizations. BSAs will work with sales to educate prospective customers about the business advantage of using Panther's services through conference calls, site visits, presentations, technical evaluations, and implementations. BSAs also interface with Product Management and Engineering to help guide product direction based on client feedback and competitive research.
Successful BSAs will have opportunities for leadership positions within the group.
Required Skills and Experience
- 1-5+ years experience in a client facing environment such as consulting or sales engineering
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills appropriate to both technical and management clients
- Passion for excellence
- Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously
- Strong analytical skills
- Strong follow up skills and ability to see a project and task to completion
- Proven team player
Desired Skills and Experience
- Experience developing and enhancing strong client relationships
- Familiarity with HTML, streaming media, and web application concepts
- Knowledge of Internet protocols, specifically TCP/IP, HTTP and DNS is a plus
- Web Services experience a plus
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related technical field strongly preferred
- Travel requirements presently light, but could be as high as 20% in the future
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Implementation Engineer
Panther Express is seeking a strong Implementation Engineer (IE) to assist in working with top tier Internet properties to deploy our content delivery technology and also help ensure top performance.
This role will provide a way to quickly learn about Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) and understand Internet performance.
The IE will utilize both business and technical acumen to gather and understand a prospect's technical requirements to provide the proper solution. This fast-paced, high-growth environment requires a high-energy individual with the ability to handle multiple accounts simultaneously. The IE will also help answer existing customer's technical questions and implement additional sites to drive revenue. The IE will also help look into performance charts to ensure high level of service delivery.
The position has the unique opportunity to work with multiple organizations. IEs will work with the sales team to increase and maintain customer revenue. IEs also interface with Product Management and Engineering to help guide product direction based on client feedback.
Successful IEs will have flexible career paths depending on their interests to become more technical or more business focused.
Required Skills and Experience
- 0-2+ years experience in a client facing environment such as consulting or professional services
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills appropriate to both technical and management clients
- Passion for excellence
- Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously
- Strong analytical skills
- Strong follow up skills and ability to see a project and task to completion
- Proven team player
Desired Skills and Experience
- Experience developing and enhancing strong client relationships
- Familiarity with HTML, streaming media, and web application concepts
- Knowledge of Internet protocols, specifically TCP/IP, HTTP and DNS is a plus
- Internet performance tools such as Gomez or Keynote
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related technical field strongly preferred
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Senior Software Engineer
We are seeking *A* level, driven developers with experience writing custom software in a distributed systems environment. This person must be able to produce quality code quickly. This is a startup; therefore, the right person should not be intimated by long hours, but the reward will be significant.
All our custom software is highly tuned for performance and scalability. The right candidate will be someone with a strong background in custom server components. We're not looking for J2EE engineers. We're looking for people who really understand computer and Internet architecture.
Responsibilities
- Participate in the entire development lifecycle from design and testing to troubleshooting
- Maintain existing code and develop future enhancements
Requirements
- Outstanding Java skills - NIO file/network experience a must
- Solid distributed systems experience
- Solid experience in a multi-threaded development
- Solid system of scale experience
- Solid Linux development experience
- Linux kernel skills a plus
- Solid SQL experience (mySQL preferred)
- Detailed understanding of TCP/IP, DNS and HTTP
- Unit testing and thorough QA of all code
- GOF design pattern knowledge
- Great attitude & a sense of humor is a must
- BS or higher degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
Bonuses
- Jakarta commons library knowledge
- PHP
- C/C++
- Python
- Network engineering experience
- ETL experience
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Software Engineer
We are seeking sharp, driven developers who have experience writing custom software in a distributed systems environment and like to have fun while doing it.
All our custom software is highly tuned for performance and scalability. The right candidate will be someone with a strong background in developing custom server components. We're seeking engineers with strong core Java skills who can produce high quality code.
Benefits
- Focus on your specialty - if you're a domain expert in something, feel free to excel in that area. We encourage it!
- We're focused on building a next generation CDN, not sitting in meetings for hours. This is all about executing on great ideas.
- No TPS reports.
- Movie night - pick a favorite film and watch it on our big screen with the crew.
- Work with some of the most talented engineers in the world. Smart folks working well together having a good time while developing the next generation of content distribution.
- Excellent health benefits.
Responsibilities
- Participate in the entire development lifecycle from design and testing to troubleshooting
- Unit testing of all code
- Maintain existing code and develop future enhancements
- Maintaining and operate our global infrastructure 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
- Solving complex issues related to various components of our infrastructure
Requirements
- Outstanding Java skills -- NIO file/network experience a big plus
- Strong knowledge of the TCP/IP protocol and network programming
- Distributed systems experience
- Solid experience in a multi-threaded development
- Solid system of scale experience
- Solid Linux development experience
- Detailed understanding of DNS and HTTP
- Two years development experience in a team environment
- Great attitude and sense of humor is a must
Bonuses
- PHP
- Network engineering experience - router configuration, IP tables, BGP
- Linux kernel skills a plus
- Solid SQL experience (mySQL preferred)
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QA Engineer
We are seeking sharp, driven QA Engineers with experience testing custom software in a distributed systems environment.
Panther performs extensive white box testing; therefore, the role requires fundamental Java skills as the position requires the development of custom testing harnesses while augmenting existing test suites on a programmatic level.
Benefits
- Focus on your specialty - if you're a domain expert in something, feel free to excel in that area. We encourage it!
- We're focused on building a next generation CDN, not sitting in meetings for hours. This is all about executing on great ideas.
- No TPS reports.
- Movie night - pick a favorite film and watch it on our big screen with the crew.
- Work with some of the most talented engineers in the world. Smart folks working well together having a good time while developing the next generation of content distribution.
- Excellent health benefits.
Responsibilities
- Participate in the entire development lifecycle from design and testing to troubleshooting
- Development of new and updated test plans for Panther's systems - both component and end to end testing.
- Coding of test harnesses in Java
- Defect management of complex and distributed software
- Solving complex issues related to various components of our infrastructure
- Maintaining and operate our global infrastructure 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
Requirements
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills
- Experience developing and augmenting test harnesses in Java
- Strong ability to troubleshoot software problems
- Solid Linux administrative experience
- 4 years of software development experience in a high-tech environment
- Knowledge of shell scripting, and command line tools
- Strong knowledge of the TCP/IP protocol
- Distributed systems experience
- Detailed understanding of DNS and HTTP
Bonuses
- Network engineering experience - router configuration, IP tables, BGP
- Linux kernel skills a plus
- Solid SQL experience (mySQL preferred)
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Customer Support Engineer
Panther's Customer Support Engineers ensure a high level of customer satisfaction by monitoring and troubleshooting Panther's global CDN infrastructure 24x7x365, and handling customer support issues promptly, effectively and conclusively. In this role, you will work closely with Panther's customers, infrastructure service providers, network and systems engineers, and software developers to perform root-cause analysis and prompt resolution of hardware, network and software issues affecting the Panther CDN.
Benefits
- Work with the most talented engineers in the industry - smart people developing the next generation of CDN technology, and having a great time doing it.
- Focus on your specialty: if you're a domain expert in a particular technology, feel free to excel in that area. We encourage it!
- Panther is 100% focused on building a next generation CDN, not sitting in meetings for hours. We are all about executing on great ideas. No TPS reports.
- Competitive salary and equity compensation. Excellent health benefits.
Responsibilities
- Serve as primary escalation point for identifying, troubleshooting, and resolving CDN issues affecting mission-critical production customer traffic
- Create monitoring tools, perform systems and network administration, and coordinate software installation for Panther's global CDN infrastructure
- Solve complex issues related to various components of Panther's global CDN infrastructure
- Develop and document procedures for problem resolution
- Provide notification to customers and the Company in the event of CDN infrastructure issues
- Work closely with network engineers, systems administrators and software engineers regarding technology and hardware upgrades for Panther's CDN infrastructure
Skills
Required:
- Ability to speak and write clearly, concisely and thoroughly in order to quickly and accurately convey complex information regarding mission-critical production issues to varying audiences
- Solid understanding of networking protocols, including TCP/IP, HTTP and DNS
- Experience with Unix (preferably Linux) systems, as an operator or administrator
- Extremely detailed-oriented and process-oriented
- High-bandwidth, self-motivated self-starter who works well with minimal supervision
Preferred:
- Knowledge of scripting (shell, Perl, Python, etc.) and command-line utilities (curl, dig, traceroute/MTR, etc.)
- Familiarity with web server technologies, including Apache, lighttpd and IIS
- Experience maintaining and troubleshooting distributed systems
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