diff --git a/extra/memcached/PKGBUILD b/extra/memcached/PKGBUILD
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..20620b38d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extra/memcached/PKGBUILD
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+# Maintainer: Levente Polyak <anthraxx[at]archlinux[dot]org>
+# Contributor: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
+# Contributor: Michael Irwin <6d6469@gmail.com>
+
+# ALARM: Kevin Mihelich <kevin@archlinuxarm.org>
+#  - remove depend on libseccomp, don't configure with --enable-seccomp; problematic on ARM
+
+pkgname=memcached
+pkgver=1.5.8
+pkgrel=1.1
+pkgdesc='Distributed memory object caching system'
+url='https://memcached.org/'
+arch=('x86_64')
+license=('GPL')
+depends=('libevent')
+optdepends=('perl: for memcached-tool usage')
+source=(https://www.memcached.org/files/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz
+        memcached.service
+        memcached.tmpfiles
+        memcached.sysusers)
+sha256sums=('7388c3989442a46d7e04e8ac2631464e9ce44d5114d79c41dd8780b4b186f6de'
+            'fd60fde92b959dc4160facc0d165f04319d2ece4d2c59b68d8ae24824abea7dd'
+            'c4d0ae2218b99a276ff6e0084ae81e66add0ca9347e4bde70e9172db6e44002a'
+            '228c4f536f3c9f9eee4e11226ec8846a22d4ba46c2d3bf2811413efcc322609a')
+sha512sums=('6f0e3ce9cae3e424c41223597353b9520e7e7f97fb4719a5d520dfd34e1d917d4ee0e42bced0a5799042227b80bc4ed2778715a71b9941239db13cb367bdb088'
+            '5b006064b3ab31a6982f5c7b1ab4a49d64118a459913bd4be18ca63bf606dcae3550121d05a34ac8932d28b367e18fa76699c46e311b0b6a22f36ab1885ebebe'
+            '960705ff74d25afed477e0b2a5872a3a4fb49ed3105a351f0d0224abc947778f9dbda81e80be94ab636da4a8411a9dd56a8fd4513e5b86a3096a14fa67f1548b'
+            'e6ddcab9a6fee024072b6363ef60aa176ed258369bf3a17d475f19b1f410ffd6195b9c5737dc5b1371e8974b44bdbdaa109927acaeb54fb40302a5d67d7c13a8')
+
+prepare() {
+  cd ${pkgname}-${pkgver}
+  sed -e 's/^##safer##//g' -i scripts/memcached.service scripts/memcached@.service
+}
+
+build() {
+  cd ${pkgname}-${pkgver}
+  ./configure \
+    --prefix=/usr
+  make
+}
+
+check() {
+  cd ${pkgname}-${pkgver}
+  make test
+}
+
+package() {
+  cd ${pkgname}-${pkgver}
+  make DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" install
+  install -Dm 755 scripts/memcached-tool -t "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
+  install -Dm 644 ../memcached.service -t "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/systemd/system"
+  install -Dm 644 ../memcached.tmpfiles "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/memcached.conf"
+  install -Dm 644 ../memcached.sysusers "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/sysusers.d/memcached.conf"
+}
+
+# vim: ts=2 sw=2 et:
diff --git a/extra/memcached/memcached.service b/extra/memcached/memcached.service
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..925cb37a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extra/memcached/memcached.service
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+[Unit]
+Description=Memcached Daemon
+After=network.target
+
+[Service]
+User=memcached
+# Remove '-l 127.0.0.1' to listen on all addresses
+ExecStart=/usr/bin/memcached -l 127.0.0.1 -o modern
+Restart=always
+PrivateTmp=yes
+PrivateDevices=yes
+ProtectSystem=full
+MemoryDenyWriteExecute=yes
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=multi-user.target
diff --git a/extra/memcached/memcached.sysusers b/extra/memcached/memcached.sysusers
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..817ce728f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extra/memcached/memcached.sysusers
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+u memcached - - -
diff --git a/extra/memcached/memcached.tmpfiles b/extra/memcached/memcached.tmpfiles
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..89ffc4723
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extra/memcached/memcached.tmpfiles
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+d /run/memcached 0775 memcached memcached -