Oracle Cuts Jobs Across Engineering, Sales, Customer Success

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:

Some of the customer success roles impacted by the latest round include:

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:

And other job roles cut by Oracle include: