Not sure if maybe we have different versions of the confluent kafka library, but in case somebody else runs into the same issues as me, here is the configuration I had to use to connect to MSK using SASL:

```

{

'bootstrap.servers': "your.bootstrap.server:9096",

'auto.offset.reset': 'end',

'security.protocol': 'SASL_SSL',

'group.id': uuid4().hex,

'sasl.mechanisms': 'SCRAM-SHA-512',

'sasl.username': 'your_user',

'sasl.password': 'your_pw'

}

```