diff --git a/.buildkite/pipeline.yml b/.buildkite/pipeline.yml
index ec5fc3472e3d767e6f0773cd7b2b961b210d3fb3..463a3a14660c09684ae218abace0924ab90b7f2d 100644
--- a/.buildkite/pipeline.yml
+++ b/.buildkite/pipeline.yml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ steps:
     agents:
       # We use a medium sized instance instead of the normal small ones because
       # gradle build is long
-      queue: "medium"
+      queue: "xlarge"
     command: "./gradlew clean lintRelease --stacktrace"
     artifact_paths:
       - "matrix-sdk-android/build/reports/*.*"