diff --git a/api/src/backend/api/sse/__init__.py b/api/src/backend/api/sse/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..244bd3c9ad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/api/src/backend/api/sse/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+"""Platform Server-Sent Events (SSE) infrastructure.
+
+Wires `django-eventstream` into the API: a base viewset features
+subclass to expose an SSE endpoint
+(:class:`api.sse.base_views.BaseSSEViewSet`), the channel manager that
+enforces the tenant gate (:class:`api.sse.channelmanager.SSEChannelManager`),
+and the channel-name helpers (:func:`api.sse.utils.make_channel_name`).
+"""
+
+from api.sse.utils import make_channel_name
+from api.sse.base_views import BaseSSEViewSet
+
+__all__ = ["BaseSSEViewSet", "make_channel_name"]
diff --git a/api/src/backend/api/sse/base_views.py b/api/src/backend/api/sse/base_views.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c4a24540ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/api/src/backend/api/sse/base_views.py
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+"""Base view class for SSE endpoints."""
+
+from api.authentication import SSEAuthentication
+from api.base_views import BaseRLSViewSet
+from django_eventstream.renderers import SSEEventRenderer
+from django_eventstream.views import events
+
+
+class BaseSSEViewSet(BaseRLSViewSet):
+    """Base class for platform SSE endpoints.
+
+    Subclasses override method `get_channels` to declare the channel
+    names the connection should subscribe to — the same way a regular
+    DRF viewset overrides method `get_queryset`. The channel manager
+    reads the result from `request.sse_channels`; there is no other
+    coupling between platform and feature.
+    """
+
+    authentication_classes = [SSEAuthentication]
+    # Pin the SSE renderer so content negotiation accepts the browser's
+    # `Accept: text/event-stream`.
+    renderer_classes = [SSEEventRenderer]
+
+    def get_channels(self) -> set[str]:
+        """Return the channels this connection subscribes to.
+
+        Implementations MUST raise the relevant DRF exceptions
+        (`NotAuthenticated`, `PermissionDenied`, `NotFound`) when
+        authorization fails. Returning an empty set would surface as
+        django-eventstream's "No channels specified" which masks the
+        real cause.
+        """
+        raise NotImplementedError
+
+    def get_queryset(self):
+        # Most SSE viewsets only need `get_channels` and never call
+        # `get_queryset` (the SSE list path bypasses serialization
+        # entirely). Subclasses that perform their own queryset lookup
+        # inside `get_channels` should override; the default raises
+        # the same error a missing override on a ModelViewSet would.
+        raise NotImplementedError
+
+    def list(self, request, *_args, **kwargs):
+        """Resolve channels under the regular DRF stack and stream."""
+        request.sse_channels = self.get_channels()
+        return events(request, **kwargs)
diff --git a/api/src/backend/api/sse/channelmanager.py b/api/src/backend/api/sse/channelmanager.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6be42747f2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/api/src/backend/api/sse/channelmanager.py
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+"""Channel manager that wires `django-eventstream` to platform SSE views."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from django_eventstream.channelmanager import DefaultChannelManager
+
+from api.sse.utils import tenant_id_from_channel
+
+
+class SSEChannelManager(DefaultChannelManager):
+    """Connect `django-eventstream` to the platform's SSE viewsets."""
+
+    def get_channels_for_request(self, request, _view_kwargs):
+        """Return the channels the viewset already computed on the request."""
+        return getattr(request, "sse_channels", set())
+
+    def can_read_channel(self, user, channel):
+        """Re-verify tenant membership once the stream is established.
+
+        The channel name embeds the tenant id; cross-tenant subscription
+        is rejected here even if the URL-level check ever has a bug.
+        Resource-level visibility was already enforced at connect.
+        """
+        if user is None or not user.is_authenticated:
+            return False
+        tenant_id = tenant_id_from_channel(channel)
+        if tenant_id is None:
+            return False
+        return user.is_member_of_tenant(tenant_id)
+
+    def is_channel_reliable(self, channel):
+        """Clients refetch canonical state from REST on reconnect"""
+        return False
diff --git a/api/src/backend/api/sse/utils.py b/api/src/backend/api/sse/utils.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e6d58a1ec1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/api/src/backend/api/sse/utils.py
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+"""Channel-name convention shared by SSE publishers, consumers, and the
+channel manager. The format is `<prefix>:<tenant_id>:<resource_id>`.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import uuid
+
+CHANNEL_SEPARATOR = ":"
+
+
+def make_channel_name(
+    prefix: str,
+    tenant_id: str | uuid.UUID,
+    resource_id: str | uuid.UUID,
+) -> str:
+    """Build the canonical channel name for a resource.
+
+    Args:
+        prefix: Feature-owned prefix (e.g. `"lighthouse-session"`).
+        tenant_id: Tenant the resource belongs to.
+        resource_id: Resource identifier within the tenant.
+    """
+    return CHANNEL_SEPARATOR.join((prefix, str(tenant_id), str(resource_id)))
+
+
+def tenant_id_from_channel(channel: str) -> uuid.UUID | None:
+    """Return the tenant UUID embedded in *channel*, or `None` if
+    *channel* does not follow the platform convention.
+
+    A `None` result MUST be treated by callers as "not authorized" or
+    a malformed channel cannot be safely read.
+    """
+    segments = channel.split(CHANNEL_SEPARATOR)
+    if len(segments) < 3:
+        return None
+    try:
+        return uuid.UUID(segments[1])
+    except ValueError:
+        return None
diff --git a/api/src/backend/api/tests/test_sse.py b/api/src/backend/api/tests/test_sse.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..18cd688589
--- /dev/null
+++ b/api/src/backend/api/tests/test_sse.py
@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+"""Tests for the platform SSE infrastructure (``api.sse``).
+
+Cover the two security-critical platform pieces — the channel-name
+convention (:mod:`api.sse.utils`) and the tenant gate enforced by
+:class:`api.sse.channelmanager.SSEChannelManager`. The SSE authentication
+class lives in :mod:`api.authentication` with the rest of the auth stack,
+so its tests live in ``test_authentication.py``. Per-feature SSE endpoints
+add their own tests on top of these.
+"""
+
+import uuid
+from unittest.mock import MagicMock
+
+import pytest
+
+from api.sse.channelmanager import SSEChannelManager
+from api.sse.utils import make_channel_name, tenant_id_from_channel
+
+
+class TestMakeChannel:
+    def test_round_trips_tenant_id(self):
+        tenant_id = uuid.uuid4()
+        channel = make_channel_name("lighthouse-session", tenant_id, uuid.uuid4())
+        assert tenant_id_from_channel(channel) == tenant_id
+
+    def test_accepts_str_arguments(self):
+        tenant_id = uuid.uuid4()
+        channel = make_channel_name("lighthouse-session", str(tenant_id), "resource-1")
+        assert channel == f"lighthouse-session:{tenant_id}:resource-1"
+
+    def test_prefix_with_hyphen_is_not_split(self):
+        # Prefixes contain hyphens but never colons, so the tenant id is
+        # always the second colon-separated segment.
+        tenant_id = uuid.uuid4()
+        channel = make_channel_name("a-long-hyphenated-prefix", tenant_id, "res")
+        assert tenant_id_from_channel(channel) == tenant_id
+
+
+class TestTenantIdFromChannel:
+    def test_returns_none_for_too_few_segments(self):
+        assert tenant_id_from_channel("prefix:only") is None
+        assert tenant_id_from_channel("garbage") is None
+
+    def test_returns_none_for_non_uuid_tenant_segment(self):
+        assert tenant_id_from_channel("prefix:not-a-uuid:resource") is None
+
+    def test_parses_valid_channel(self):
+        tenant_id = uuid.uuid4()
+        assert tenant_id_from_channel(f"prefix:{tenant_id}:resource") == tenant_id
+
+
+@pytest.mark.django_db
+class TestSSEChannelManager:
+    def test_member_can_read_own_tenant_channel(
+        self, create_test_user, tenants_fixture
+    ):
+        tenant = tenants_fixture[0]
+        channel = make_channel_name("lighthouse-session", tenant.id, uuid.uuid4())
+        assert SSEChannelManager().can_read_channel(create_test_user, channel)
+
+    def test_non_member_cannot_read_other_tenant_channel(
+        self, create_test_user, tenants_fixture
+    ):
+        # create_test_user is a member of tenant1 and tenant2 but not tenant3.
+        foreign_tenant = tenants_fixture[2]
+        channel = make_channel_name(
+            "lighthouse-session", foreign_tenant.id, uuid.uuid4()
+        )
+        assert not SSEChannelManager().can_read_channel(create_test_user, channel)
+
+    def test_anonymous_user_is_rejected(self, tenants_fixture):
+        channel = make_channel_name(
+            "lighthouse-session", tenants_fixture[0].id, uuid.uuid4()
+        )
+        assert not SSEChannelManager().can_read_channel(None, channel)
+
+        anon = MagicMock(is_authenticated=False)
+        assert not SSEChannelManager().can_read_channel(anon, channel)
+
+    def test_malformed_channel_is_rejected(self, create_test_user, tenants_fixture):
+        assert not SSEChannelManager().can_read_channel(create_test_user, "garbage")
+
+    def test_get_channels_for_request_reads_stashed_set(self):
+        request = MagicMock()
+        request.sse_channels = {"prefix:tenant:resource"}
+        manager = SSEChannelManager()
+        assert manager.get_channels_for_request(request, {}) == {
+            "prefix:tenant:resource"
+        }
+
+    def test_get_channels_for_request_defaults_to_empty(self):
+        # A request that never went through BaseSSEViewSet.list has no
+        # sse_channels attribute; the manager must not raise.
+        request = object()
+        assert SSEChannelManager().get_channels_for_request(request, {}) == set()
+
+    def test_channel_is_not_reliable(self):
+        # v1 ships without server-side replay storage.
+        assert (
+            SSEChannelManager().is_channel_reliable("prefix:tenant:resource") is False
+        )
diff --git a/api/src/backend/config/django/base.py b/api/src/backend/config/django/base.py
index 38cf047ac2..3308561b48 100644
--- a/api/src/backend/config/django/base.py
+++ b/api/src/backend/config/django/base.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ from datetime import timedelta
 from config.custom_logging import LOGGING  # noqa
 from config.env import BASE_DIR, env  # noqa
 from config.settings.celery import *  # noqa
+from config.settings.eventstream import *  # noqa
 from config.settings.partitions import *  # noqa
 from config.settings.sentry import *  # noqa
 from config.settings.social_login import *  # noqa
@@ -44,6 +45,7 @@ INSTALLED_APPS = [
     "dj_rest_auth.registration",
     "rest_framework.authtoken",
     "drf_simple_apikey",
+    "django_eventstream",
 ]
 
 MIDDLEWARE = [
@@ -136,6 +138,7 @@ SPECTACULAR_SETTINGS = {
 }
 
 WSGI_APPLICATION = "config.wsgi.application"
+ASGI_APPLICATION = "config.asgi.application"
 
 DJANGO_GUID = {
     "GUID_HEADER_NAME": "Transaction-ID",
diff --git a/api/src/backend/config/settings/eventstream.py b/api/src/backend/config/settings/eventstream.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..470062050b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/api/src/backend/config/settings/eventstream.py
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+"""Server-Sent Events (SSE) configuration.
+
+Wires django-eventstream into the platform: Valkey Pub/Sub backend on a
+dedicated DB (separate from the Celery broker), the platform channel
+manager, and headers that match the existing CORS allowlist.
+"""
+
+from config.env import env
+from config.settings.celery import (
+    VALKEY_HOST,
+    VALKEY_PASSWORD,
+    VALKEY_PORT,
+    VALKEY_SCHEME,
+    VALKEY_USERNAME,
+)
+
+# Dedicated Valkey DB for the SSE Pub/Sub bus. Kept distinct from the
+# Celery broker DB so a noisy broker can't shoulder out streaming
+# traffic on the same keyspace.
+EVENTSTREAM_VALKEY_DB = env.int("EVENTSTREAM_VALKEY_DB", default=2)
+
+EVENTSTREAM_REDIS: dict = {
+    "host": VALKEY_HOST,
+    "port": int(VALKEY_PORT),
+    "db": EVENTSTREAM_VALKEY_DB,
+}
+if VALKEY_PASSWORD:
+    EVENTSTREAM_REDIS["password"] = VALKEY_PASSWORD
+if VALKEY_USERNAME:
+    EVENTSTREAM_REDIS["username"] = VALKEY_USERNAME
+if VALKEY_SCHEME == "rediss":
+    EVENTSTREAM_REDIS["ssl"] = True
+
+# Platform channel manager — performs the per-feature authorization and
+# rewrites the placeholder channel from the URL into the canonical
+# tenant-scoped channel name. See ``api.sse.channelmanager``.
+EVENTSTREAM_CHANNELMANAGER_CLASS = "api.sse.channelmanager.SSEChannelManager"
+
+# Headers a browser EventSource may legitimately send. Keep tight; the
+# stream itself reads no body, so no permissive defaults.
+EVENTSTREAM_ALLOW_HEADERS = "Cache-Control, Last-Event-ID"