Senior Content Security Engineer — Media & Cloud

Disney Entertainment; Glendale (CA); Hybrid; USD 142,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus potential

Long-term incentive units

Medical benefits

Job summary

The Walt Disney Studios Content Security organization is dedicated to protecting all creative content through robust security practices across production lifecycles. The Staff Content Security Engineer will join a senior technical consulting team, working in Glendale, CA with in-person days Monday through Thursday and remote Fridays, focusing on secure cloud workflows and AI-related risk management.

Ideal candidates bring deep security expertise, strong collaboration skills, and a passion for

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in cybersecurity, software engineering, or infrastructure roles with architecture design and assessment experience.
• Ability to drive security improvements across multiple teams and disciplines.
• Comfortable translating 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, workflows, or risks, particularly 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

Skills

Security engineering

Threat modeling

Cloud security

AppSec

Red team

Blue team

Pentest

Security architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/IT or equivalent

Certifications (AWS, CCNP, CISSP, CISM, CISA, GIAC, CEH, ITIL, VCP, VCAP)

Job description

The Walt Disney Studios Content Security organization is dedicated to protecting all creative content through robust security practices across production lifecycles. The Staff Content Security Engineer will join a senior technical consulting team, working in Glendale, CA with in-person days Monday through Thursday and remote Fridays, focusing on secure cloud workflows and AI-related risk management.

Ideal candidates bring deep security expertise, strong collaboration skills, and a passion for