# Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) Lead, Federal at Peregrine

- Company: Peregrine
- What the company does: Backed by Sequoia and Menlo.
- Company website: https://www.peregrine.io/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Washington, D.C.
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-19
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/peregrinetechnologies/jobs/4725281005
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/peregrine-governance-risk-and-compliance-grc-lead-federal/

## About the role

We are looking for a senior Governance, Risk, and Compliance leader to own Peregrine's FedRAMP High program and establish the security and compliance foundation required to support Department of War (DoW) deployments at DoD Impact Level (IL) 4, IL5, and IL6, ICD 503 accreditation for Top Secret environments, and agency-specific system authorizations.

## What they're looking for

- You are comfortable operating as a senior individual contributor with broad organizational influence and can drive programs across engineering, security, product, legal, operations, and customer-facing teams
- You approach compliance as an engineering and risk-management discipline and are willing to challenge weak implementations, unsupported assertions, and inadequate evidence
- You can turn complex or evolving requirements into defensible implementation strategies and communicate technical security issues clearly to engineers, executives, assessors, customers, and government security officials

Tags: GRC