diff --git a/.bazelrc b/.bazelrc
index de01a87443f..93fcb0c1645 100644
--- a/.bazelrc
+++ b/.bazelrc
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ common:ci-windows-cross --strategy=TestRunner=local
 # V8 embeds IsolateData offsets in snapshot builtins; Windows snapshots must be
 # generated by a Windows mksnapshot binary rather than the Linux RBE host tool.
 common:ci-windows-cross --strategy=V8Mksnapshot=local
-common:ci-windows-cross --local_test_jobs=4
+common:ci-windows-cross --local_test_jobs=8
 common:ci-windows-cross --test_env=RUST_TEST_THREADS=1
 # Native Windows CI still covers the PowerShell parser-process tests. The
 # cross-built gnullvm binaries currently hang in those tests when run on the