Sustainability at GitLab

Responsible AI: GitLab is among the first SaaS companies and the first DevSecOps platform to achieve ISO 42001, which is designed to help organizations develop, provide, or use AI systems responsibly.

Trust Center: Added GitLab's ISO 42001 certification to the Trust Center and by the end of FY26, our customers had utilized the center through over 24,000 document interactions, including over 2,000 downloads and views of our System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2 report.

Secure by design: As a voluntary signatory to the CISA Secure by Design pledge, publicly reported on progress toward the pledge goals, including a rollout of multi-factor authentication, reduction of default passwords, publication of resources including secure coding guidelines that contain descriptions and guidance on addressing security vulnerabilities commonly identified in the GitLab codebase, development of an incident response guide, and use of our Open Source Security at GitLab repository.

AI transparency: Continued to expand our AI Transparency Center to provide customers with information on our approach to responsible AI development and deployment.

Product security: Advanced product security as a trust enabler and competitive differentiator, led by our Product Security guiding principles. This included operationalizing our Product Security Risk Register as a single system of record, improving consistency and accountability in risk-informed product decisions.

Green DevOps: In response to growing customer requests, launched a Green DevOps Working Group to embed sustainability throughout the software development lifecycle. This includes a focus on five key areas: cloud sustainability, CI/CD pipeline sustainability, sustainable AI, community engagement and innovation, and reporting and analytics. In FY27, published Pipeline Sustainability, offering customers practical guidance on measuring and reducing the carbon emissions from their CI/CD pipelines. Also added sustainability criteria to our Model Vendor Selection Guidelines, signaling an expectation for vendors to adopt sustainable practice and be transparent about the energy consumption and carbon emissions of their AI models.

Energy certificates: Purchased and retired carbon removal credits to cover 21,086 tonnes of CO₂e of GitLab's emissions.

Supplier engagement: Continued pursuit of our aspirational science-aligned supplier engagement target to reduce our Scope 3 emissions: 70% of our suppliers (by emissions) will have science-aligned climate targets by FY29. Strengthened supplier expectations by expanding the Environmental Sustainability section of our Partner Code of Ethics, requesting suppliers to measure their GHG emissions annually, disclose results to GitLab if not publicly available, establish a science-aligned reduction target, and report progress toward that target as requested.

Employee engagement and learning: Launched our first Earth Month campaign in partnership with Mammoth Climate, an employee engagement platform, to expand climate literacy across our workforce, empower team members to take climate action at work and at home, and raise awareness of GitLab's sustainability programs.

A strong culture: When surveyed, 92% of team members say GitLab is a great place to work and 96% of team members said that when you join GitLab you are made to feel welcome.

Customer collaboration and innovation: Our GitLab Co-Create Program allowed customers to work directly with our product and engineering teams to develop new features and enhance existing ones. 23 enterprise organizations collectively contributed 534 merge requests across GitLab's open source ecosystem.

Support for community organizations: As part of our GiveLab 30 Days of Impact campaign, we brought together 448 participating team members who volunteered more than 625 hours to support 48 nonprofit organizations across 11 different countries.

GitLab Foundation: Donated 163,555 shares of GitLab's Class A common stock, totaling over $7 million, to support the GitLab Foundation's pursuit of a world in which one million more people can afford a better life.