diff --git a/.cirrus.yml b/.cirrus.yml
index 646518b7840ad..9399fbda47e2f 100644
--- a/.cirrus.yml
+++ b/.cirrus.yml
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ env:
   CTIMETEST: yes
   BENCH: yes
   ITERS: 2
+  MAKEFLAGS: -j2
 
 cat_logs_snippet: &CAT_LOGS
   always:
@@ -131,6 +132,8 @@ task:
   env:
     HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE: 1
     HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALL_CLEANUP: 1
+    # Cirrus gives us a fixed number of 12 virtual CPUs. Not that we even have that many jobs at the moment...
+    MAKEFLAGS: -j13
   matrix:
     << : *ENV_MATRIX
   matrix:
diff --git a/ci/cirrus.sh b/ci/cirrus.sh
index 2175a04e0dbf1..f223a91ca0a5b 100755
--- a/ci/cirrus.sh
+++ b/ci/cirrus.sh
@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@ valgrind --version || true
     --with-valgrind="$WITH_VALGRIND" \
     --host="$HOST" $EXTRAFLAGS
 
-make -j2
+# We have set "-j<n>" in MAKEFLAGS.
+make
 
 # Print information about binaries so that we can see that the architecture is correct
 file *tests || true
@@ -30,7 +31,7 @@ file .libs/* || true
 
 if [ -n "$BUILD" ]
 then
-    make -j2 "$BUILD"
+    make "$BUILD"
 fi
 
 if [ "$RUN_VALGRIND" = "yes" ]