diff --git a/projects/envoy/Dockerfile b/projects/envoy/Dockerfile
index dfe3c0ae2..095786dc0 100644
--- a/projects/envoy/Dockerfile
+++ b/projects/envoy/Dockerfile
@@ -37,4 +37,4 @@ RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y bazel
 
 RUN git clone https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy.git
 WORKDIR $SRC/envoy/
-COPY find_corpus.py build.sh $SRC/
+COPY build.sh $SRC/
diff --git a/projects/envoy/build.sh b/projects/envoy/build.sh
index 4dd9e2c68..88a21e8ed 100755
--- a/projects/envoy/build.sh
+++ b/projects/envoy/build.sh
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ done
 )"
 
 declare BAZEL_BUILD_TARGETS=""
+declare BAZEL_CORPUS_TARGETS=""
 declare FILTERED_FUZZER_TARGETS=""
 for t in ${FUZZER_TARGETS}
 do
@@ -54,6 +55,7 @@ do
   then
     FILTERED_FUZZER_TARGETS+="$t "
     BAZEL_BUILD_TARGETS+="${BAZEL_PATH}_driverless "
+    BAZEL_CORPUS_TARGETS+="${BAZEL_PATH}_corpus_tar "
   fi
 done
 
@@ -67,7 +69,7 @@ bazel build --verbose_failures --dynamic_mode=off --spawn_strategy=standalone \
   --build_tag_filters=-no_asan \
   ${EXTRA_BAZEL_FLAGS} \
   --linkopt="-lFuzzingEngine" \
-  ${BAZEL_BUILD_TARGETS[*]}
+  ${BAZEL_BUILD_TARGETS[*]} ${BAZEL_CORPUS_TARGETS[*]}
 
 # Profiling with coverage requires that we resolve+copy all Bazel symlinks and
 # also remap everything under proc/self/cwd to correspond to Bazel build paths.
@@ -100,19 +102,31 @@ then
   #   /root/.cache "${OUT}"
 fi
 
-# Copy out test driverless binaries from bazel-bin/ and zip up related test
-# corpuses.
+# Copy out test driverless binaries from bazel-bin/.
 for t in ${FILTERED_FUZZER_TARGETS}
 do
-  TARGET_CORPUS=$(python "${SRC}"/find_corpus.py "$t")
   TARGET_BASE="$(expr "$t" : '.*/\(.*\)_fuzz_test')"
   TARGET_DRIVERLESS=bazel-bin/"${t}"_driverless
-  echo "Copying fuzzer $t and corpus"
+  echo "Copying fuzzer $t"
   cp "${TARGET_DRIVERLESS}" "${OUT}"/"${TARGET_BASE}"_fuzz_test
-  zip "${OUT}/${TARGET_BASE}"_fuzz_test_seed_corpus.zip \
-    "$(dirname "${t}")"/"${TARGET_CORPUS}"/*
 done
 
+# Zip up related test corpuses.
+# TODO(htuch): just use the .tar directly when
+# https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz/issues/1918 is fixed.
+CORPUS_UNTAR_PATH="${PWD}"/_tmp_corpus
+for t in ${FILTERED_FUZZER_TARGETS}
+do
+  echo "Extracting and zipping fuzzer $t corpus"
+  rm -rf "${CORPUS_UNTAR_PATH}"
+  mkdir -p "${CORPUS_UNTAR_PATH}"
+  tar -C "${CORPUS_UNTAR_PATH}" -xvf bazel-bin/"${t}"_corpus_tar.tar
+  TARGET_BASE="$(expr "$t" : '.*/\(.*\)_fuzz_test')"
+  zip "${OUT}/${TARGET_BASE}"_fuzz_test_seed_corpus.zip \
+    "${CORPUS_UNTAR_PATH}"/*
+done
+rm -rf "${CORPUS_UNTAR_PATH}"
+
 # Copy dictionaries and options files to $OUT/
 for d in $FUZZER_DICTIONARIES; do
   cp "$d" "${OUT}"/
diff --git a/projects/envoy/find_corpus.py b/projects/envoy/find_corpus.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 712822ea1..000000000
--- a/projects/envoy/find_corpus.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python
-
-import os
-import sys
-import re
-
-fuzzer_target = sys.argv[1]
-directory, fuzzer_target_name = os.path.dirname(fuzzer_target), os.path.basename(fuzzer_target)
-path = os.path.join('..', 'envoy', directory, 'BUILD')
-
-with open(path, 'r') as f:
-  searchlines = f.readlines()
-  for i, line in enumerate(searchlines):
-      if fuzzer_target_name in line:
-        for l in searchlines[i:]:
-          if 'corpus =' in l:
-            corpus_path = l
-            break
-try:
-  corpus_path
-except NameError:  
-  raise Exception("No corpus path for the given fuzz target")
-print re.findall(r'"([^"]*)"', corpus_path)[0]