diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 7d64f993a3ec1..24d6d3fc060a8 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 [build-system]
 # Must be kept in sync with `setup_requirements` in `setup.py`
 requires = [
-    "setuptools>=18.5",
+    "setuptools>=40.6.0",
     "wheel",
     "cffi>=1.8,!=1.11.3; python_implementation != 'PyPy'",
 ]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"