diff --git a/src/mongo/util/SConscript b/src/mongo/util/SConscript
index 6add602..6e232d8 100644
--- a/src/mongo/util/SConscript
+++ b/src/mongo/util/SConscript
@@ -241,9 +241,6 @@ if get_option('allocator') == 'tcmalloc':
         # Add in the include path for our vendored tcmalloc.
         tcmspEnv.InjectThirdPartyIncludePaths('gperftools')
 
-        # Include valgrind since tcmalloc disables itself while running under valgrind
-        tcmspEnv.InjectThirdPartyIncludePaths('valgrind')
-
         # If our changes to tcmalloc are ever upstreamed, this should become set based on a top
         # level configure check, though its effects should still be scoped just to these files.
         tcmspEnv.Append(
@@ -252,6 +249,10 @@ if get_option('allocator') == 'tcmalloc':
             ]
         )
 
+    # Include valgrind since tcmalloc disables itself while running under valgrind
+    if not use_system_version_of_library('valgrind'):
+        tcmspEnv.InjectThirdPartyIncludePaths('valgrind')
+
     tcmspEnv.Library(
         target='tcmalloc_set_parameter',
         source=[