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Account Executive

About Panther Express:


Panther Express is a high-performance, global CDN with an innovative infrastructure that combines rapid provisioning, reliability, scalability and outstanding support. More than 425 media, entertainment, technology, gaming, news and Web 2.0 companies rely on Panther’s system to ensure reliable, cost-effective content delivery. Panther is backed by Index Ventures and Greylock Partners and is part of the AlleyCorp (http://www.alleycorp.com/) network of affiliated Internet companies. For more information, please visit http://www.pantherexpress.net/.

Position Description:
Panther is seeking an aggressive closer who knows the difference between strategic and tactical sales. S/he has a go-getter attitude and can hit the ground running right from day one. Thorough knowledge of the CDN space and customers that buy such services required. A good sense of humor is a definite plus.

The ideal candidate must have a proven track record of sales to the top names in gaming, video, and other related Web 2.0 industries. This is an ideal opportunity for someone looking to be part of the next big thing.

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Compensation:

Sales Engineer (west)

Panther Express Inc. offers an aggressively priced content delivery network (CDN) that ensures rapid and reliable content loading performance to internet site visitors world-wide. Every element of our business is focused on providing world-class CDN performance at the highest level of service. Panther Express is seeking a strong Sales Engineer (SE) responsible for working with top tier Internet properties to evangelize and deploy of cutting edge content delivery technology.

Working closely with the R&D and Product Management team, the Sales Engineer will develop future product enhancement and strategy. The Sales Engineer is responsible for is leveraging business and technical acumen. The Sales Engineer must understand the business needs of the client and match them to the company’s unique value proposition with clear communication of complex content delivery solutions to prospective clients.


The Sales Engineer must work effectively to drive revenues by managing the technical pre-sales and deployment processes while evangelizing Panther's technology to prospective customers. This position works with sales to educate prospective customers about the business advantage of using Panther's services. This includes pre and post sales tasks such as conference calls, site visits, presentations, technical evaluations, implementation and ongoing technical account management. The Sales Engineer must display network operations expertise and understand the client network infrastructure. This fast-paced, high-growth environment requires a high-energy individual with the ability to handle multiple accounts simultaneously.
This role presently requires light travel arrangements, possibly increasing to 20% in the future. The Sales Engineer is a critical component within the organization and will provide high-visibility for individuals seeking growth.


Requirements

QA Developer

White Box QA Engineer Who's Always Looking for an Edge

There's nothing more interesting to software quality engineers worth their mettle than working in environments where there's no such thing as a cookie cutter solution. That's exactly the scenario you'll find as a QA Engineer for Panther Express, testing customer configurations of our revolutionary content delivery network product suite. You'll thrive in this role with the kind of forensic mindset that drives you to ferret out the unusual edge cases, the extreme circumstances, and deal with them before they get into production.

Working from our offices in New York City's Flatiron district, your first mission will be to learn about our cache server and our infrastructure. Working in a small, agile QA team means you'll be able you to put your personal stamp on how quality engineering will be done around here. We can't use off the shelf test tools, because you'll be testing custom software running in a distributed systems environment where each customer scenario is different. So a key part of your white box QA role will be to build an automated test suite. Java is our preferred language to implement the test harness, but you'll find us highly receptive to new ideas. If you think PHP or Python is a better choice, for example, we're open to discussion. Since there are code writing responsibilities here, candidates with computer science degrees are ideal, as are former software developers who've found their true calling in QA. Besides Java, you'll also write some Bash scripts to load drivers and execute simple tasks.

Since customers origin configurations vary greatly being able to setup and configure web servers will be key. We'll look to you for an understanding of the basics of HTTP and DNS, so you can understand what our system is doing. To get a little granular, the client in our testing environment is the Web Browser, and your charter will be to write a wrapper on something that could make HTTP calls so you can make a specific request and see if you get back the answer expected. In managing defects you may discover that when you use authentication under a certain situation it passes, although by rights it should fail, and you'll need to run that case against every build. You'll thus be creating a portfolio of everything ever broken and fixed, and will verify in the harness that it was not broken again.

Candidates to whom we'll give bonus points have:

We'll judge your effectiveness based on how many problems you find, how well rounded your test suite gets, your work on edge cases and how effectively you interact with our team. From a career perspective, you'll have the satisfaction of knowing that if you can test our CDN against a unique array of origin server configurations, you can test anything.

Making Panther Express an Exceptional Place to Work are the Following Benefits