Senior Content Security Engineer - Media & Cloud

The Walt Disney Studios; Glendale (CA); Hybrid; USD 142,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

The Walt Disney Studios Content Security organization is dedicated to protecting all creative content across the production lifecycle. This full-time Staff Content Security Engineer role is based in Glendale, CA, with in-office work Monday through Thursday and Fridays remote.

You will protect content by applying cloud security, AppSec, and threat modeling in collaboration with engineers and content creators.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in cybersecurity, software engineering, or infrastructure roles with architecture design and assessment experience
• Ability to translate threat models, abuse cases, and technical risk into clear recommendations and architectural input
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Passion for innovation, and curiosity to dive deep into new tools and risks in content creation and generative AI

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate subject matter expertise of the design and security integration of complex systems across platforms and cloud-native tools
• Serve as a key technical partner for high-risk or high-visibility assessments across AppSec, CloudSec, and media infrastructure
• Advocate and advise secure workflows that enable remote editing, cloud post-production, and real-time asset delivery
• Drive technical testing efforts for custom or vendor-supplied tooling, APIs, and third-party integrations
• Define and standardize repeatable security patterns, reusable controls, and hardening baselines used across assessments and vendor engagements
• Mentor engineers across levels and domains to improve security acumen and solution delivery
• Contribute to threat modeling, framework development, and control selection for Studio-wide initiatives
• Stay ahead of new technologies, emerging attack techniques, and cloud security trends relevant to creative pipelines
• Research and grow knowledge in AI technology and security implications

Job description

The Walt Disney Studios Content Security organization is dedicated to protecting all creative content across the production lifecycle. This full-time Staff Content Security Engineer role is based in Glendale, CA, with in-office work Monday through Thursday and Fridays remote.

You will protect content by applying cloud security, AppSec, and threat modeling in collaboration with engineers and content creators.