diff --git a/.changeset/healthy-crabs-collect.md b/.changeset/healthy-crabs-collect.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5dc90f9b80
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/healthy-crabs-collect.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'@backstage/plugin-kafka-backend': patch
+---
+
+Internal tweak to adapt to `kafkajs` 2.2.3
diff --git a/plugins/kafka-backend/src/types/types.ts b/plugins/kafka-backend/src/types/types.ts
index 1fb9701334..f5ffd6b6c7 100644
--- a/plugins/kafka-backend/src/types/types.ts
+++ b/plugins/kafka-backend/src/types/types.ts
@@ -25,8 +25,19 @@ export interface ClusterDetails {
 
 export type SslConfig = ConnectionOptions | boolean;
 
-export type SaslConfig = {
-  mechanism: 'plain' | 'scram-sha-256' | 'scram-sha-512';
-  username: string;
-  password: string;
-};
+export type SaslConfig =
+  | {
+      mechanism: 'plain';
+      username: string;
+      password: string;
+    }
+  | {
+      mechanism: 'scram-sha-256';
+      username: string;
+      password: string;
+    }
+  | {
+      mechanism: 'scram-sha-512';
+      username: string;
+      password: string;
+    };