Sr Content Security Engineer

Job Summary

The Walt Disney Studios is a leader in the industry that brings memorable, life‑changing stories to the world through Disney Motion Picture Productions (MPP), Marvel Studios, Pixar, Walt Disney Animation Studios, 20th Century Studios, Searchlight Pictures, and Lucasfilm. The Content Security organization protects the magic – ensuring that all film and episodic content is protected and does not leak. As a Senior Content Security Engineer, you will lead security reviews, provide actionable recommendations, and partner with engineering and production teams to strengthen our content protection practices in a fast‑moving studio environment.

• Lead application and infrastructure security reviews for content management, editorial, and production platforms.
• Conduct security assessments and provide actionable recommendations for internal tools and third‑party vendor solutions.
• Serve as a technical partner for production technologists, platform owners, and engineering teams.
• Investigate incidents and findings with appropriate follow‑up documentation and recommendations.
• Integrate secure‑by‑design principles into new workflows, including remote collaboration and cloud‑based editing.
• Assist with the creation and maintenance of baseline configurations and hardening guidelines.
• Develop automation or tooling scripts to support repetitive assessments or checks.
• Present security risks and solutions to technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Maintain awareness of threats targeting the entertainment sector and content workflows.
• Contribute to cross‑functional initiatives including privacy, DRM, watermarking, and AI‑based content usage reviews.

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field.
• At least 5 years of experience in cybersecurity roles, with emphasis on application, cloud, or infrastructure security.
• Strong understanding of cloud security services across AWS, GCP, or Azure, including IAM, networking, and compute.
• Experience securing CI/CD pipelines, APIs, and containerized environments.
• Familiarity with security use cases in Media & Entertainment, such as editorial, transfer, and content collaboration workflows.
• Strong problem‑solving and sense of ownership in seeing security improvements through.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.
• Certifications such as Security+, AWS SAA, or GCP ACE are a plus.
• Core skills: product security, security engineering, pentest, redteam/tiger team/blue team, cloud security engineering, and security software engineering.

The hiring range for this position in Glendale, CA is $129,300 to $158,000 per year. The base pay will be determined based on internal equity, geographic region, job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience. A bonus and/or long‑term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.