diff --git a/app/workers/post_receive.rb b/app/workers/post_receive.rb
index 9a4fbea53a157f158e5eed4df6f4c321fe22fe30..c75e1a8a170707809fc28825ddee90501f1e51ca 100644
--- a/app/workers/post_receive.rb
+++ b/app/workers/post_receive.rb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ class PostReceive
 
   idempotent!
   deduplicate :none
-  data_consistency :always
+  data_consistency :sticky, feature_flag: :load_balanacing_for_sticky_post_receive_worker
 
   sidekiq_options retry: 3
   include Gitlab::Experiment::Dsl
diff --git a/config/feature_flags/worker/load_balanacing_for_sticky_post_receive_worker.yml b/config/feature_flags/worker/load_balanacing_for_sticky_post_receive_worker.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..62a470e4305c759a57d1e823c643cf03a265550d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/feature_flags/worker/load_balanacing_for_sticky_post_receive_worker.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+---
+name: load_balanacing_for_sticky_post_receive_worker
+feature_issue_url: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/402254
+introduced_by_url: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/167317
+rollout_issue_url: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/495040
+milestone: '17.5'
+group: group::source code
+type: worker
+default_enabled: false