diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c3ad15cdd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+*.so filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index c8684f105..02af1764b 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -45,6 +45,10 @@
     <dropwizard-metrics-datadog.version>1.1.14</dropwizard-metrics-datadog.version>
     <!-- can be updated to latest version with Dropwizard 5 (Jetty 12); will then need to disable telemetry -->
     <dynamodblocal.version>2.2.1</dynamodblocal.version>
+    <!-- Note: when updating FoundationDB, also include a copy of `libfdb_c.so` from the FoundationDB release at
+    src/main/jib/usr/lib/libfdb_c.so. We use x86_64 builds without AVX instructions enabled (i.e. FoundationDB versions
+    with even-numbered patch versions). -->
+    <foundationdb.version>7.3.62</foundationdb.version>
     <google-cloud-libraries.version>26.57.0</google-cloud-libraries.version>
     <grpc.version>1.70.0</grpc.version> <!-- should be kept in sync with the value from Google libraries-bom -->
     <gson.version>2.12.1</gson.version>
@@ -214,6 +218,11 @@
         <artifactId>dropwizard-metrics-datadog</artifactId>
         <version>${dropwizard-metrics-datadog.version}</version>
       </dependency>
+      <dependency>
+        <groupId>org.foundationdb</groupId>
+        <artifactId>fdb-java</artifactId>
+        <version>${foundationdb.version}</version>
+      </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
         <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
diff --git a/service/pom.xml b/service/pom.xml
index a199fa889..41a7e6718 100644
--- a/service/pom.xml
+++ b/service/pom.xml
@@ -351,6 +351,11 @@
       <artifactId>reactor-grpc-stub</artifactId>
     </dependency>
 
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.foundationdb</groupId>
+      <artifactId>fdb-java</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+
     <dependency>
       <groupId>software.amazon.awssdk</groupId>
       <artifactId>apache-client</artifactId>
@@ -648,6 +653,9 @@
               </container>
               <extraDirectories>
                 <paths>
+                  <path>
+                    <from>${project.basedir}/src/main/jib</from>
+                  </path>
                   <path>
                     <from>${project.basedir}/config</from>
                     <includes>*.yml</includes>
diff --git a/service/src/main/jib/usr/lib/libfdb_c.x86_64.so b/service/src/main/jib/usr/lib/libfdb_c.x86_64.so
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..de1868063
--- /dev/null
+++ b/service/src/main/jib/usr/lib/libfdb_c.x86_64.so
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:bfed237b787fae3cde1222676e6bfbb0d218fc27bf9e903397a7a7aa96fb2d33
+size 23671800