diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index f2e156a21..cd75fab3e 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -7602,6 +7602,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "openssl-sys",
  "pkg-config",
  "sasl2-sys",
+ "zstd-sys",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
diff --git a/crates/arroyo-connectors/Cargo.toml b/crates/arroyo-connectors/Cargo.toml
index 4c9082651..9a8bd87d9 100644
--- a/crates/arroyo-connectors/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/arroyo-connectors/Cargo.toml
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ regex = "1"
 # Kafka
 aws-sdk-kafka = { version = "1.44" }
 aws-msk-iam-sasl-signer = "1.0.0"
-rdkafka = { version = "0.36", features = ["cmake-build", "tracing", "sasl", "ssl-vendored"] }
+rdkafka = { version = "0.36", features = ["cmake-build", "tracing", "sasl", "ssl-vendored", "zstd"] }
 rdkafka-sys = "4.7.0"
 sasl2-sys = { version = "0.1.6", features = ["vendored"] }