diff --git a/.github/workflows/backend-production-deploy.yml b/.github/workflows/backend-production-deploy.yml
index e54d99fd4..510435085 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/backend-production-deploy.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/backend-production-deploy.yml
@@ -44,10 +44,12 @@ jobs:
         run: heroku plugins:install heroku-builds
 
       - name: Build app into tarball
-        run: python setup.py sdist --formats=gztar
+        run: |
+          pip install build
+          python -m build --sdist
 
       - name: Create Heroku Build
-        run: heroku builds:create -a dandi-api --source-tar=dist/$(python setup.py --fullname).tar.gz
+        run: heroku builds:create -a dandi-api --source-tar dist/*.tar.gz
         env:
           HEROKU_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.HEROKU_API_KEY  }}
           HEROKU_EMAIL: ${{ secrets.HEROKU_EMAIL  }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/backend-staging-deploy.yml b/.github/workflows/backend-staging-deploy.yml
index aae8d7e01..4fe396f4d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/backend-staging-deploy.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/backend-staging-deploy.yml
@@ -31,10 +31,12 @@ jobs:
         run: heroku plugins:install heroku-builds
 
       - name: Build app into tarball
-        run: python setup.py sdist --formats=gztar
+        run: |
+          pip install build
+          python -m build --sdist
 
       - name: Create Heroku Build
-        run: heroku builds:create -a dandi-api-staging --source-tar=dist/$(python setup.py --fullname).tar.gz
+        run: heroku builds:create -a dandi-api-staging --source-tar dist/*.tar.gz
         env:
           HEROKU_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.HEROKU_API_KEY  }}
           HEROKU_EMAIL: ${{ secrets.HEROKU_EMAIL  }}
diff --git a/dev/django.Dockerfile b/dev/django.Dockerfile
index 947c05f46..9ac4d9ac2 100644
--- a/dev/django.Dockerfile
+++ b/dev/django.Dockerfile
@@ -9,10 +9,11 @@ RUN apt-get update && \
 ENV PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE 1
 ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED 1
 
-# Only copy the setup.py and setup.cfg, it will still force all install_requires to be installed,
+# Only copy the pyproject.toml, setup.py, and setup.cfg.  It will still force all install_requires to be installed,
 # but find_packages() will find nothing (which is fine). When Docker Compose mounts the real source
 # over top of this directory, the .egg-link in site-packages resolves to the mounted directory
 # and all package modules are importable.
+COPY ./pyproject.toml /opt/django-project/pyproject.toml
 COPY ./setup.cfg /opt/django-project/setup.cfg
 COPY ./setup.py /opt/django-project/setup.py
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index b497b99d0..35b86c819 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools", "setuptools-scm"]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+
 [tool.mypy]
 ignore_missing_imports = true
 show_error_codes = true
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 1245f9ffc..71cb5b6ad 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
     description='',
     # Determine version with scm
     use_scm_version={'version_scheme': 'post-release'},
-    setup_requires=['setuptools_scm'],
     long_description=long_description,
     long_description_content_type='text/markdown',
     license='Apache 2.0',