diff --git a/scripts/goimportscheck.sh b/scripts/goimportscheck.sh
index 912a548561..e53cafe54d 100755
--- a/scripts/goimportscheck.sh
+++ b/scripts/goimportscheck.sh
@@ -29,7 +29,11 @@ fi
 # "IFS" environment variable, but the primary place we want to run this right
 # now is in our "quick checks" workflow and that _does_ have a reasonably
 # modern version of Bash.
-readarray -t target_files < <(git diff --name-only ${base_branch} --diff-filter=MA | grep "\.go")
+readarray -t target_files < <(git diff --name-only ${base_branch} --diff-filter=MA | grep "\.go" | grep -v ".pb.go")
+
+# NOTE: The above intentionally excludes .pb.go files because those are
+# generated by a tool (protoc-gen-go) which itself doesn't produce
+# style-compliant imports.
 
 if [[ "${#target_files[@]}" -eq 0 ]]; then
   echo "No files have changed relative to branch ${base_branch}, so there's nothing to check!"