diff --git a/.buildkite/pipelines/pull_request/defend_workflows.yml b/.buildkite/pipelines/pull_request/defend_workflows.yml
index 7e5e83d6f6af4..fdbbd20b84a7d 100644
--- a/.buildkite/pipelines/pull_request/defend_workflows.yml
+++ b/.buildkite/pipelines/pull_request/defend_workflows.yml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ steps:
       queue: n2-4-virt
     depends_on: build
     timeout_in_minutes: 60
-    parallelism: 6
+    parallelism: 10
     retry:
       automatic:
         - exit_status: '*'