Oracle previously conducted layoffs in March 2026 and in the summer of 2025.
Oracle is conducting another round of layoffs, this time with cuts spanning engineering, customer success and other business functions as well as a variety of product divisions, from NetSuite and Cerner to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, caught in this latest workforce reduction.
CRN has reviewed dozens of posts to the LinkedIn social media network by users identifying themselves as former employees of the Austin, Texas-based cloud and database products vendor for patterns in which roles Oracle decided to cut in its latest layoff round.
Oracle is conducting the layoffs following its latest quarterly earnings report, where Oracle executives revealed that it is accelerating delivery of AI capacity, GPUs and multi-cloud database services while expanding its ability to connect models, enterprise data and developer workflows across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and other major clouds.
On the application side, Oracle is positioning AI agents as a way to make its SaaS, industry applications, NetSuite and health-care offerings easier to implement and more valuable in day-to-day business workflows and said customers are already ramping up usage of embedded AI and production agents.
CRN has reached out to Oracle for comment.
Rhos Dyke, founder and Oracle alliance practice lead for Acropolis Advisors, a Manhattan Beach, Calif.-based Oracle solution provider, told CRN in an interview that the layoffs could mean more work flowing through the channel.
Partners like Acropolis have stepped up in a big way, breaking down data silos within customer organizations for better AI insight.
Dyke is also glad to see Oracle invest in its major data center buildout to ensure capacity not only for its own AI products but for companies like ChatGPT maker OpenAI that are leveraging Oracle infrastructure for their product portfolios.
Oracle could also be showing signs that AI tooling is supplanting some human engineering work internally, a powerful proof point for the technology’s capabilities, he said.
Although AI products hold so much promise in automation and eliminating human error from a variety of processes, it’s Acropolis’ human-centered approach to helping its customers that’s proving a differentiator in the AI era.
Customers are looking for “somebody that can take a broader perspective on what business process improvements can I apply or employ to take advantage of what’s now possible,” Dyke said. “Customers are asking, ‘Where in my business do I actually need a human to do something?’”
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Oracle Head Count Has Already Fallen 13 Percent
Oracle conducted layoffs in March 2026 and in the summer of 2025 as it continues to invest in data center buildouts to meet heightened demand for artificial intelligence tools.
In a May 31 regulatory filing, Oracle revealed that its head count fell about 13 percent from 162,000 full-time employees in May 2025 to about 141,000 employees as of May 31, 2026. About 30 percent of employees were in R&D, 24 percent were in services, 18 percent were in cloud and software, another 18 percent were in sales and marketing, and about 8 percent were in general and administrative roles.
Although Oracle already conducted layoffs earlier in 2026, the vendor signaled that more were on the way with a $700 million supplement to its 2026 Restructuring Plan fund, bringing the total to about $2.8 billion.
About 37 percent of the restructuring plan costs went toward the cloud and software division before Oracle increased the plan budget, according to the filing. About 16 percent went toward the services division—perhaps a sign that services will flow through Oracle solution providers—and about 4 percent went toward hardware.
Partner, OCI Roles Among Those Affected
The latest round of layoffs cut across a variety of roles and product lines within the vendor.
Some of the roles appeared to hit employees who interact with Oracle’s partner program and channel efforts, including a principal program manage with Oracle for about a year who worked as a “repair workstream lead supporting strategic partners and their GPU availability in OCI facilities – failure analysis and driving resolution with a focus on reaching availability targets to meet SLA obligations,” according to the manager’s LinkedIn account.
Another employee let go was a senior director of product development for Oracle application labs engineering who “delivered new partner tooling to support the launch of the Oracle Partner Network modernized 2020 program,” according to the director’s LinkedIn account.
Some of the eliminated engineering roles include:
- A software engineer with Oracle for about a year who worked on “Delivery Connectors – platform connection restaurant POS system to delivery applications” and “executed the upgrade of the application’s core frontend RAPID library from v14 to v20, navigating numerous breaking changes and performing extensive refactoring of components, scripts, and application code,” according to the engineer’s LinkedIn account
- A level two site reliability engineer who worked with Oracle for about five years
- A principal technical support engineer with Oracle for about 12 years who led “Tier 3 implementation and cross‑platform troubleshooting for Fusion Cloud Central, PeopleSoft Enterprise, and DoD Government Applications, including high‑priority escalations” and leveraged “advanced AI platforms—ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, and Grok—to analyze logs, interpret system behavior, validate configurations, and accelerate complex issue resolution,” according to the engineer’s LinkedIn account
- A cloud security engineer and security operations center (SOC) analyst with Oracle for about eight years who worked on “engineering, SIEM usage, Crowdstrike, Proofpoint, Codex/OpenAI automation, incident response, compliance, threat hunting, log analysis, and case management,” according to the engineer’s LinkedIn account
- A principal support engineer with Oracle for about four years
- A software engineer with Oracle for about three years
- A principal pre-sales solution engineer for cloud applications who created “value-rich demonstrations tailored to each customer’s needs and requirements and collaborate with sales teams, other SE teams, and client groups to provide a well-rounded experience,” according to the engineer’s LinkedIn account
- A senior software engineer with Oracle for about three years who “improved scalability of population health analytics infrastructure by developing backend data pipelines supporting large-scale healthcare datasets within Oracle Health Cloud,” according to the engineer’s LinkedIn account
- A senior member of Oracle’s technical staff with the vendor for about four years who was “working on Access control and Identity products optimizing operator access times in the global footprint of Oracle cloud infrastructure,” according to the executive’s LinkedIn account
Some of the customer success roles impacted by the latest round include:
- A customer success executive with Oracle for about 26 years and before that PeopleSoft, which Oracle bought in 2005
- A senior customer success manager with Oracle for about six years who “managed top Enterprise customers to ensure their success with Oracle SaaS Products, focusing on optimal adoption,” according to the manager’s LinkedIn account
- A customer success executive with Oracle for about six years who managed “a $30M+ enterprise SaaS portfolio, partnering with executive sponsors to drive adoption, value realization, retention and expansion” and “delivered 20.4% contract-base growth, developed 31 SaaS expansion opportunities representing $4.2M in pipeline, and contributed to 9 won opportunities totaling $2.4M,” according to the executive’s LinkedIn account
Employees within the Cerner business Oracle acquired in 2022 and the NetSuite business Oracle bought in 2016 were also caught up in the layoffs. Some of those cuts include:
- A senior risk manager who worked on “the successful and optimised delivery of Oracle Services engagements through the assessment and mitigation of risk during both bid and delivery” and joined Oracle with the acquisition of Cerner in 2022—who had previously worked for Cerner since 2005, according to the manager’s LinkedIn account
- A lead health network executive who joined Oracle with the acquisition of Cerner, where the executive had worked for about 18 years prior
- A senior manager at Oracle’s NetSuite division who worked on the SuiteSuccess customer life-cycle methodology
- A tier one Oracle NetSuite Global Business Unit (GBU) member who previously worked at NetSuite for about seven years
And other job roles cut by Oracle include:
- A user experience (UE) designer with Oracle for about five years
- A principal technical program manager with Oracle for about a year and worked on projects representing “$400K–$800K+ in annualized organizational value, with potentially greater upside from avoiding late-stage redesign, deployment delays, capacity misallocation, and infrastructure rework,” according to the manager’s LinkedIn account
- A vice president of Americas sovereign cloud with Oracle for about 10 years who operated “Oracle’s cloud services for governments in the Americas, supporting both limited access and air-gapped environments for some of the world’s most critical workloads,” according to the executive’s LinkedIn account
- A director of product development for Fusion Grants Management with Oracle for about 29 years
- An office services manager with Oracle for about 20 years who directed and managed “all operational aspects of a global call center and reception desks” and created, developed and implemented “customer service programs to enhance services for both internal and external customers,” according to the manager’s LinkedIn account
- A principal specialist for revenue enablement services with Oracle for about 13 years
- A senior regional sales manager who led “a high-performing team of 7 Account Executives focused on Oracle Fusion Cloud solutions within the Financial Services sector (Majors)” and boasted of 140 percent fiscal year 2026 revenue attainment with a $6.3 million budget and $8.8 million booked plus FY 2026 renewal attainment with a renewal target of $33 million, $28 million booked and 85 percent renewal rate, according to the manager’s LinkedIn account
- A regional sales manager for enterprise high tech with Oracle for about 11 years
- A senior member of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) platform team for Console Developer Experience (CDX) who supported “multiple plugin teams by developing and maintaining a suite of reusable, accessibility-compliant components and templates for consumer-facing applications,” according to the executive’s LinkedIn account
- A principal analyst with Oracle for about five years
- A senior network developer with Oracle for about a year
- A level five business analyst with Oracle for about 14 years
- A compensation analyst with Oracle for about 10 years
