Blockchain heralds a massive change in the fabric of business and society. Gartner forecasts the business value of blockchain at $176B by 2025 and $3.1T by 2030. The disruption caused by blockchain threatens multiple industries and the dustup that follows will pivot core transactional systems to new rails for the next 25 years. Many of the questions about this transformation that remain to be answered touch on the relationships between businesses, governments and individuals in society, rather than technology. Blockchain offers a model for secure, multi-party computation that unlocks new transactional and collaboration models across organizations. It also ushers in a technology wave targeted towards consortiums of organizations, rather than just single- or two-party schemes. We believe that cloud technology can empower people and businesses around the world to achieve more, and we see blockchain as a strong complement to Microsoft's existing assets. We are positioned to lead across the
In this role, you will lead development of the blockchain enterprise product offering. You will define and shepherd the architecture of our suite offering to meet customer needs today, and to scale to massive consumption tomorrow. You will collaborate across boundaries with partner teams to create compelling first-party integrations that demonstrate the value of blockchain in business processes and experiences. You will lead the engineering workstreams as we build an incubation business that can unlock a new wave of thought leadership, cloud adoption, business models and value creation. The product
Basic Qualifications: BS or MS in computer science, engineering, mathematics or a related field, or equivalent industry experience 10 years of programming experience writing code in C, C++, C#, Java or other imperative languages; or in ML, Rust, Haskell, Scala or other functional languages Preferred Qualifications: Experience creating v1 products, or within a startup or incubation business Passion for mentoring and sponsoring engineers to grow in their careers Ability to scale, leveraging senior and junior engineers appropriately Ability to think creatively, bring diverse experience to bear on