diff --git a/hack/verify_boilerplate.py b/hack/verify_boilerplate.py
index f199fd5af..f95aeb793 100755
--- a/hack/verify_boilerplate.py
+++ b/hack/verify_boilerplate.py
@@ -192,9 +192,13 @@ def get_regexs():
     regexs["year"] = re.compile('YEAR')
     # dates can be 2014, 2015, 2016 or 2017, company holder names can be anything
     regexs["date"] = re.compile(get_dates())
-    # strip // +build \n\n build constraints
+    # strip //go:build \n// +build \n\n build constraints We are currently using
+    # Go 1.17 where two forms of build constraints ('go:build', '+build') are
+    # added to files. This will need to change when we upgrade to a version of
+    # Go which only uses the 'go:build' format
+    # See https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/draft-gobuild.md
     regexs["go_build_constraints"] = re.compile(
-        r"^(// \+build.*\n)+\n", re.MULTILINE)
+        r"^(//go:build.*\n// \+build.*\n)+\n", re.MULTILINE)
     # strip #!.* from shell/python scripts
     regexs["shebang"] = re.compile(r"^(#!.*\n)\n*", re.MULTILINE)
     return regexs