Case Study: Jobvite achieves reliable, scalable high‑volume email delivery with Amazon SES

Jobvite - Customer Case Study

Jobvite, a California-based SaaS recruiting platform, faced unstable managed hosting, slow performance, and rigid scaling that hurt customer experience and growth. To fix these issues they moved to AWS services and, for email delivery, adopted Amazon SES to handle roughly half a million outbound messages per workday while addressing performance, availability, and compliance requirements.

Jobvite implemented a cloud architecture on AWS—using Amazon EC2 with Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon RDS, Amazon S3, CloudWatch, SNS for notifications, and Amazon SES for email—allowing automatic scaling and faster recovery. The move delivered measurable results: availability rose to about 99.98%, operational expenses fell ~35%, server provisioning dropped from 2–3 weeks to about 5 minutes, and the company secured $25 million in expansion funding while improving reliability and developer agility. Amazon SES remains a key part of their email delivery pipeline.

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Theodore Kim

Senior Director of SaaS Operations