diff --git a/.bazelrc b/.bazelrc
index f00a26c8437..aeb0c37484c 100644
--- a/.bazelrc
+++ b/.bazelrc
@@ -7,6 +7,13 @@ common --registry=https://bcr.bazel.build
 common --credential_helper=*.qnx.com=%workspace%/.github/tools/qnx_credential_helper.py
 common --credential_helper_timeout="60s"
 
+# In order to overcome stability issues in GitHub
+common --experimental_repository_downloader_retries=30
+common --experimental_scale_timeouts=2.0
+common --http_connector_attempts=30
+common --http_connector_retry_max_timeout=1s
+common --http_timeout_scaling=2.0
+
 # Clear ANDROID_HOME for repository rules. rules_android (pulled transitively via
 # grpc-java -> rules_jvm_external) evaluates android_sdk_repository, which fails
 # when ANDROID_HOME points at an incomplete SDK (as on CI runners). None of our