diff --git a/services/mam-api/src/routes/jobs.js b/services/mam-api/src/routes/jobs.js
index 4677dba..1a83b15 100644
--- a/services/mam-api/src/routes/jobs.js
+++ b/services/mam-api/src/routes/jobs.js
@@ -30,14 +30,17 @@ const QUEUES = [
 
 // BullMQ state → API status mapping
 const STATE_MAP = {
-  waiting:  'waiting',
-  active:   'active',
-  completed:'completed',
-  failed:   'failed',
-  delayed:  'waiting',
-  paused:   'waiting',
+  waiting:   'waiting',
+  active:    'active',
+  completed: 'completed',
+  failed:    'failed',
+  delayed:   'waiting',
+  paused:    'waiting',
 };
 
+// Ordered state buckets used for bulk fetch — avoids N+1 getState() calls.
+const STATE_BUCKETS = ['active', 'waiting', 'completed', 'failed', 'delayed', 'paused'];
+
 function normalizeJob(bullJob, type, apiStatus) {
   const isCompleted = apiStatus === 'completed';
   const isFailed    = apiStatus === 'failed';
@@ -57,24 +60,56 @@ function normalizeJob(bullJob, type, apiStatus) {
   };
 }
 
+// Fetch all jobs from all queues in bulk by state bucket (no per-job getState() calls).
 async function getAllBullMQJobs() {
   const results = [];
-  const allStates = ['waiting', 'active', 'completed', 'failed', 'delayed', 'paused'];
   for (const { queue, type } of QUEUES) {
-    try {
-      const jobs = await queue.getJobs(allStates, 0, 200);
-      for (const job of jobs) {
-        const state     = await job.getState();
-        const apiStatus = STATE_MAP[state] || state;
-        results.push(normalizeJob(job, type, apiStatus));
+    for (const bucket of STATE_BUCKETS) {
+      try {
+        const apiStatus = STATE_MAP[bucket] || bucket;
+        // getJobs([state], start, end) returns at most 200 per bucket
+        const jobs = await queue.getJobs([bucket], 0, 200);
+        for (const job of jobs) {
+          results.push(normalizeJob(job, type, apiStatus));
+        }
+      } catch {
+        // queue or bucket unavailable — skip
       }
-    } catch {
-      // queue may be unavailable – skip
     }
   }
   return results;
 }
 
+// ── GET /events – Server-Sent Events stream of live job updates ───────────────
+//
+// Must be declared BEFORE GET /:id so the literal path "events" isn't treated
+// as a job-id parameter.
+//
+router.get('/events', async (req, res) => {
+  res.setHeader('Content-Type',      'text/event-stream');
+  res.setHeader('Cache-Control',     'no-cache');
+  res.setHeader('Connection',        'keep-alive');
+  res.setHeader('X-Accel-Buffering', 'no'); // disable nginx proxy buffering
+  res.flushHeaders();
+
+  let closed = false;
+  req.on('close', () => { closed = true; });
+
+  const push = async () => {
+    if (closed) return;
+    try {
+      const jobs = await getAllBullMQJobs();
+      if (!closed) res.write(`data: ${JSON.stringify({ type: 'jobs', jobs })}\n\n`);
+    } catch (err) {
+      if (!closed) res.write(`data: ${JSON.stringify({ type: 'error', message: err.message })}\n\n`);
+    }
+    if (!closed) setTimeout(push, 2000);
+  };
+
+  // Send initial snapshot immediately, then every 2 s
+  await push();
+});
+
 // ── GET / - List jobs (BullMQ queues) ────────────────────────────────────────
 router.get('/', async (req, res, next) => {
   try {