diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/strace/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/strace/default.nix
index 167768a27e36..f0f0eb7113c4 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/strace/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/strace/default.nix
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   depsBuildBuild = [ buildPackages.stdenv.cc ];
   nativeBuildInputs = [ perl ];
 
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
   # libunwind for -k.
   # On RISC-V platforms, LLVM's libunwind implementation is unsupported by strace.
   # The build will silently fall back and -k will not work on RISC-V.