diff --git a/pkgs/tools/filesystems/ceph/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/filesystems/ceph/default.nix
index 5e3af349fc5a..8c1686042c3e 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/filesystems/ceph/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/filesystems/ceph/default.nix
@@ -341,8 +341,6 @@ in rec {
       graphviz
     ];
 
-    enableParallelBuilding = true;
-
     buildInputs = cryptoLibsMap.${cryptoStr} ++ [
       arrow-cpp
       babeltrace
@@ -450,6 +448,14 @@ in rec {
       ''-DWITH_XFS=${if optLibxfs != null then "ON" else "OFF"}''
     ] ++ lib.optional stdenv.isLinux "-DWITH_SYSTEM_LIBURING=ON";
 
+    preBuild =
+      # The legacy-option-headers target is not correctly empbedded in the build graph.
+      # It also contains some internal race conditions that we work around by building with `-j 1`.
+      # Upstream discussion for additional context at https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/63402.
+      ''
+        cmake --build . --target legacy-option-headers -j 1
+      '';
+
     postFixup = ''
       wrapPythonPrograms
       wrapProgram $out/bin/ceph-mgr --prefix PYTHONPATH ":" "$(toPythonPath ${placeholder "out"}):$(toPythonPath ${ceph-python-env})"