diff --git a/backend/pom.xml b/backend/pom.xml
index c49997f..2a18dba 100644
--- a/backend/pom.xml
+++ b/backend/pom.xml
@@ -157,10 +157,10 @@
       <plugin>
         <groupId>com.google.cloud.tools</groupId>
         <artifactId>jib-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>3.4.5</version>
+        <version>3.5.1</version>
         <configuration>
           <from>
-            <!-- distroless glibc base — matches GraalVM native binary ABI on Linux x86_64 -->
+            <!-- distroless glibc base — multi-arch (amd64 + arm64), matches GraalVM native binary ABI -->
             <image>gcr.io/distroless/base-nossl-debian12</image>
           </from>
           <to>
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@
       <id>native</id>
       <build>
         <plugins>
-
+        
           <!-- GraalVM native-image compilation -->
           <plugin>
             <groupId>org.graalvm.buildtools</groupId>
@@ -228,6 +228,8 @@
                 <buildArg>-H:-EnableLoggingFeature</buildArg>
                 <buildArg>-R:MaxHeapSize=128m</buildArg>
                 <buildArg>-R:MinHeapSize=32m</buildArg>
+                <!-- Limit native-image compiler RAM (build time, not runtime) -->
+                <buildArg>-J-Xmx8g</buildArg>
               </buildArgs>
             </configuration>
           </plugin>