Staff Content Security Engineer – Media Cloud & AI

The Walt Disney Company; Glendale (CA); On-site; USD 142,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

The Walt Disney Studios Content Security organization protects creative content throughout the production lifecycle, blending cybersecurity with entertainment technology. The Staff Content Security Engineer role is based in Glendale, CA, with in-office work Monday to Thursday and remote Fridays.

You will join a strong technical consulting team, safeguarding Disney’s content and advancing secure workflows for editing, cloud post-production, and real‑time asset delivery while mentoring engineers

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in cybersecurity, software engineering, or infrastructure roles with architecture design and assessment experience.
• Demonstrated 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 the 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

Product security

Security engineering

Pentest

Redteam/ Tiger Team/Blue team

Cloud security engineering

Security software engineer

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

AWS

CCNP

CISSP

CISM

CISA

GIAC

CEH

ITIL

VCP

VCAP

Job description

The Walt Disney Studios Content Security organization protects creative content throughout the production lifecycle, blending cybersecurity with entertainment technology. The Staff Content Security Engineer role is based in Glendale, CA, with in-office work Monday to Thursday and remote Fridays.

You will join a strong technical consulting team, safeguarding Disney’s content and advancing secure workflows for editing, cloud post-production, and real‑time asset delivery while mentoring engineers