Principal Security Compliance Analyst, Elastic
Public Sector, Information Security
$159.8-303.5k
Actual salary range is dependent on location
Open source platform powering search, observability, security, and more
Open for applications
Open source platform powering search, observability, security, and more
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$159.8-303.5k
Actual salary range is dependent on location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help turn endless data possibilities into real results with the power of Search AI.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience managing or supporting a FedRAMP Moderate program
- Strong understanding of FedRAMP, NIST SP 800-53, and continuous monitoring requirements
- Experience with SSPs, POA&Ms, control evidence, vulnerability management, and security assessments
- Strong project-management and organizational skills
- Ability to communicate effectively with technical teams, auditors, government stakeholders, and company leadership
- Eligible to work in Department of Defense (DoD) Impact Level 4 or above cloud service environments
What the job involves
- Join our team as a Principal Security Compliance Analyst, where you'll take the lead in managing our FedRAMP Moderate program. You'll be part of a fantastic team that values a strong security culture, allowing you to contribute meaningfully to our mission while collaborating with like-minded professionals. Your expertise will help us maintain and enhance our compliance efforts in a supportive and engaging environment
- Manage the FedRAMP Moderate authorization and continuous monitoring program
- Maintain the System Security Plan, policies, procedures, evidence, inventories, diagrams, and other required documentation
- Coordinate assessments and reviews with our 3PAO, federal agency partners, consultants, and internal teams
- Track security findings and POA&M items through remediation
- Work with Security, Engineering, IT, Product, and Legal teams to implement and maintain required controls
- Monitor program deadlines, risks, and compliance metrics and report progress to leadership
- Review system and product changes for potential FedRAMP impact
- Help control owners understand their responsibilities and prepare appropriate evidence
Our take
Organizations are dealing with exploding data volumes increasingly sophisticated cyber threats, and the growing expectation tha ttechnology should help act on problems, not just report them. Ai is moving from experimentation into real operations, especially in security and observability where speed and context are critical. So now, both enterprises and governments are looking for simpler, shared platforms that sale easily and reduce complexity rather than add to it.
And Elastic sits at the intersection of these needs with its Search AI Platform that helps organizations turn large amounts of structured and unstructured data into clear insights and actiontions across search, security, and observability. Elastic's strength lies in its open, flexible approach, which breaks down data silos and provides a context people and AI systems need to make daster, better decisions. The goal is straightforward: help teams see what's happening, understand it quickly, and respond confidently.
Recently, the company worked with CISA to deliver a unified, cloud-based SIEM for US federal agencies, this highlights strong trust in Elastic's security and scalability. Alongside this, its AWS Agentic AI Specialization also reflects leadership in making autonomous AI system practical and reliable. Together, these milestones position Elastic well for the future, as organizations increasingly rely on shared platforms and intelligent systems to manage ris, complexity, and growth.
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Insights
8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jul 2016
$58m
SERIES D
Jun 2014
$70m
SERIES C
Total funding: $162m
Company benefits
- Toast to your health: Fully paid health coverage for you and your family, in many locations.
- Craft your calendar: Flexible location and schedule for most roles.
- Create space for you: Distributed by design workforce, plus generous number of vacation days each year.
- Embrace parenthood: Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave, plus generous family formation benefits.
- Give back your time: 40 hours each year to use toward volunteering with organizations and causes you’re passionate about.
- Amplify your impact: Double your charitable giving — we match donations up to $1500 USD (or local currency equivalent).
Company HQ
Union Square, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Ashutosh Kulkarni
(CEO)Ashutosh joined Elastic in 2021 as CPO, becoming CEO in 2022. Prior to this, he was an EVP and CPO of Enterprise at McAfee, a Senior VP and GM of Web Performance and Web Security at Akamai Technologies, and a Senior VP and GM of Informatica Cloud at Informatica.
Shay Banon
(Co-Founder & CTO)Shay co-founded Elastic in 2012 and has served as the CTO since.
Navam Welihinda
(CFO)Prior to joining Elastic in 2025, Navam was the CFO at Grammarly. He also spent nearly 8 years at HashiCorp as VP of Finance and CFO and was the Head of Finance, Compose at IBM for 1 year.
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