diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index c6d7819a1d..580cc9ba19 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ variables:
   # This base image is created here: https://gitlab.ddbuild.io/DataDog/apm-reliability/benchmarking-platform/-/pipelines/38806487
   BASE_CI_IMAGE: 486234852809.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ci/benchmarking-platform:dd-trace-go-38806487
   INDEX_FILE: index.txt
-  KUBERNETES_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_OVERWRITE: dd-trace-go
   FF_USE_LEGACY_KUBERNETES_EXECUTION_STRATEGY: "true"
   BENCHMARK_TARGETS: "BenchmarkStartRequestSpan|BenchmarkHttpServeTrace|BenchmarkTracerAddSpans|BenchmarkStartSpan|BenchmarkSingleSpanRetention|BenchmarkOTelApiWithCustomTags|BenchmarkInjectW3C|BenchmarkExtractW3C|BenchmarkPartialFlushing|BenchmarkGraphQL|BenchmarkSampleWAFContext|BenchmarkCaptureStackTrace|BenchmarkSetTagString|BenchmarkSetTagStringPtr|BenchmarkSetTagMetric|BenchmarkSetTagStringer"