diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 4be3ce4e53cd0..91472a62a2bd9 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -274,6 +274,14 @@ allprojects {
     javadoc.options.addStringOption('Xdoclint:all,-missing', '-quiet')
   }
 
+  // support for reproducible builds
+  tasks.withType(AbstractArchiveTask).configureEach {
+    // ignore file timestamps
+    // be consistent in archive file order
+    preserveFileTimestamps = false
+    reproducibleFileOrder = true
+  }
+
   project.afterEvaluate {
     // Handle javadoc dependencies across projects. Order matters: the linksOffline for
     // org.opensearch:opensearch must be the last one or all the links for the
diff --git a/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/opensearch/gradle/info/GlobalBuildInfoPlugin.java b/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/opensearch/gradle/info/GlobalBuildInfoPlugin.java
index 60afe8334f05d..ccd82372bb11b 100644
--- a/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/opensearch/gradle/info/GlobalBuildInfoPlugin.java
+++ b/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/opensearch/gradle/info/GlobalBuildInfoPlugin.java
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ public void apply(Project project) {
             params.setGradleJavaVersion(Jvm.current().getJavaVersion());
             params.setGitRevision(gitInfo.getRevision());
             params.setGitOrigin(gitInfo.getOrigin());
-            params.setBuildDate(ZonedDateTime.now(ZoneOffset.UTC));
+            params.setBuildDate(Util.getBuildDate(ZonedDateTime.now(ZoneOffset.UTC)));
             params.setTestSeed(getTestSeed());
             params.setIsCi(System.getenv("JENKINS_URL") != null);
             params.setIsInternal(isInternal);
diff --git a/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/opensearch/gradle/util/Util.java b/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/opensearch/gradle/util/Util.java
index fc79d991211d6..71b1e5040340d 100644
--- a/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/opensearch/gradle/util/Util.java
+++ b/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/opensearch/gradle/util/Util.java
@@ -48,6 +48,9 @@
 import java.io.UncheckedIOException;
 import java.net.URI;
 import java.net.URISyntaxException;
+import java.time.Instant;
+import java.time.ZoneOffset;
+import java.time.ZonedDateTime;
 import java.util.Locale;
 import java.util.Optional;
 import java.util.function.Supplier;
@@ -187,4 +190,17 @@ public String toString() {
             }
         };
     }
+
+    public static ZonedDateTime getBuildDate(ZonedDateTime defaultValue) {
+        final String sourceDateEpoch = System.getenv("SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH");
+        if (sourceDateEpoch != null) {
+            try {
+                return ZonedDateTime.ofInstant(Instant.ofEpochSecond(Long.parseLong(sourceDateEpoch)), ZoneOffset.UTC);
+            } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
+                throw new GradleException("Sysprop [SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH] must be of type [long]", e);
+            }
+        } else {
+            return defaultValue;
+        }
+    }
 }
diff --git a/server/src/test/java/org/opensearch/index/engine/InternalEngineTests.java b/server/src/test/java/org/opensearch/index/engine/InternalEngineTests.java
index 1296532b0ba0d..d20b151bb69bf 100644
--- a/server/src/test/java/org/opensearch/index/engine/InternalEngineTests.java
+++ b/server/src/test/java/org/opensearch/index/engine/InternalEngineTests.java
@@ -55,7 +55,6 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.index.LeafReader;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.LeafReaderContext;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.LiveIndexWriterConfig;
-import org.apache.lucene.index.LogByteSizeMergePolicy;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.LogDocMergePolicy;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.MergePolicy;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.NoMergePolicy;