diff --git a/libs/renderengine/Android.bp b/libs/renderengine/Android.bp
index b8fd1b2..8d19c45 100644
--- a/libs/renderengine/Android.bp
+++ b/libs/renderengine/Android.bp
@@ -133,8 +133,6 @@
         "-fvisibility=hidden",
         "-Werror=format",
         "-Wno-unused-parameter",
-        // TODO: Investigate reducing pinned-memory usage (b/263377839)
-        "-DRE_SKIAVK",
     ],
     srcs: [
         ":librenderengine_sources",
diff --git a/libs/renderengine/RenderEngine.cpp b/libs/renderengine/RenderEngine.cpp
index 341c011..d08c221 100644
--- a/libs/renderengine/RenderEngine.cpp
+++ b/libs/renderengine/RenderEngine.cpp
@@ -39,12 +39,8 @@
             ALOGD("RenderEngine with SkiaGL Backend");
             return renderengine::skia::SkiaGLRenderEngine::create(args);
         case RenderEngineType::SKIA_VK:
-#ifdef RE_SKIAVK
             ALOGD("RenderEngine with SkiaVK Backend");
             return renderengine::skia::SkiaVkRenderEngine::create(args);
-#else
-            LOG_ALWAYS_FATAL("Requested VK backend, but RE_SKIAVK is not defined!");
-#endif
         case RenderEngineType::SKIA_GL_THREADED: {
             ALOGD("Threaded RenderEngine with SkiaGL Backend");
             return renderengine::threaded::RenderEngineThreaded::create(
@@ -54,16 +50,12 @@
                     args.renderEngineType);
         }
         case RenderEngineType::SKIA_VK_THREADED:
-#ifdef RE_SKIAVK
             ALOGD("Threaded RenderEngine with SkiaVK Backend");
             return renderengine::threaded::RenderEngineThreaded::create(
                     [args]() {
                         return android::renderengine::skia::SkiaVkRenderEngine::create(args);
                     },
                     args.renderEngineType);
-#else
-            LOG_ALWAYS_FATAL("Requested VK backend, but RE_SKIAVK is not defined!");
-#endif
         case RenderEngineType::GLES:
         default:
             ALOGD("RenderEngine with GLES Backend");
diff --git a/libs/renderengine/skia/SkiaVkRenderEngine.cpp b/libs/renderengine/skia/SkiaVkRenderEngine.cpp
index 2b8495c..f9424f0 100644
--- a/libs/renderengine/skia/SkiaVkRenderEngine.cpp
+++ b/libs/renderengine/skia/SkiaVkRenderEngine.cpp
@@ -14,10 +14,6 @@
  * limitations under the License.
  */
 
-// Allow the SkiaVkRenderEngine class to not be compiled, to save space
-// NOTE: In order to build this class, define `RE_SKIAVK` in a build file.
-#ifdef RE_SKIAVK
-
 // #define LOG_NDEBUG 0
 #undef LOG_TAG
 #define LOG_TAG "RenderEngine"
@@ -677,4 +673,3 @@
 } // namespace skia
 } // namespace renderengine
 } // namespace android
-#endif // RE_SKIAVK
diff --git a/libs/renderengine/skia/SkiaVkRenderEngine.h b/libs/renderengine/skia/SkiaVkRenderEngine.h
index 1e42b80..2e0cf45 100644
--- a/libs/renderengine/skia/SkiaVkRenderEngine.h
+++ b/libs/renderengine/skia/SkiaVkRenderEngine.h
@@ -17,10 +17,6 @@
 #ifndef SF_SKIAVKRENDERENGINE_H_
 #define SF_SKIAVKRENDERENGINE_H_
 
-// Allow the SkiaVkRenderEngine class to not be compiled, to save space
-// NOTE: In order to build this class, define `RE_SKIAVK` in a build file.
-#ifdef RE_SKIAVK
-
 #include <vk/GrVkBackendContext.h>
 
 #include "SkiaRenderEngine.h"
@@ -59,5 +55,4 @@
 } // namespace renderengine
 } // namespace android
 
-#endif // RE_SKIAVK
-#endif // SF_SKIAVKRENDERENGINE_H_
+#endif
diff --git a/libs/renderengine/tests/RenderEngineTest.cpp b/libs/renderengine/tests/RenderEngineTest.cpp
index 7db95a7..f3f2da8 100644
--- a/libs/renderengine/tests/RenderEngineTest.cpp
+++ b/libs/renderengine/tests/RenderEngineTest.cpp
@@ -112,7 +112,6 @@
     virtual bool useColorManagement() const = 0;
 };
 
-#ifdef RE_SKIAVK
 class SkiaVkRenderEngineFactory : public RenderEngineFactory {
 public:
     std::string name() override { return "SkiaVkRenderEngineFactory"; }
@@ -153,8 +152,6 @@
 public:
     bool useColorManagement() const override { return true; }
 };
-#endif // RE_SKIAVK
-
 class SkiaGLESRenderEngineFactory : public RenderEngineFactory {
 public:
     std::string name() override { return "SkiaGLRenderEngineFactory"; }
@@ -1560,17 +1557,11 @@
     expectBufferColor(Rect(kGreyLevels, 1), generator, 2);
 }
 
-#ifdef RE_SKIAVK
 INSTANTIATE_TEST_SUITE_P(PerRenderEngineType, RenderEngineTest,
                          testing::Values(std::make_shared<SkiaGLESRenderEngineFactory>(),
                                          std::make_shared<SkiaGLESCMRenderEngineFactory>(),
                                          std::make_shared<SkiaVkRenderEngineFactory>(),
                                          std::make_shared<SkiaVkCMRenderEngineFactory>()));
-#else  // RE_SKIAVK
-INSTANTIATE_TEST_SUITE_P(PerRenderEngineType, RenderEngineTest,
-                         testing::Values(std::make_shared<SkiaGLESRenderEngineFactory>(),
-                                         std::make_shared<SkiaGLESCMRenderEngineFactory>()));
-#endif // RE_SKIAVK
 
 TEST_P(RenderEngineTest, drawLayers_noLayersToDraw) {
     if (!GetParam()->typeSupported()) {