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Oracle\u2019s latest round of layoffs cuts across products, divisions and geographies of the Austin, Texas-based cloud and database products giant as the company focuses on the artificial intelligence opportunity and increasing margins from its AI business.<\/p>\n
CRN examined posts on LinkedIn by former and outgoing Oracle employees to find trends about where the vendor is making the job cuts, which could number in the tens of thousands, according to multiple reports. Multiple news outlets have reported estimates by investment bank TD Cowen of as many as 30,000 Oracle job cuts. A layoff of 30,000 employees would amount to about 19 percent of Oracle\u2019s 162,000 headcount, as of May 2025.<\/p>\n
Oracle\u2019s wave of layoffs appears to have included engineers, managers, directors and other job titles in security, sales, the NetSuite division and other parts of the company.<\/p>\n
[RELATED: Atlassian Plans 1,600 Layoffs With Savings Shift To AI, Enterprise Sales<\/a>]<\/p>\n Oracle Layoffs: What We Know So Far<\/p>\n In an email to CRN, an Oracle spokesperson said the company declined to comment on the reported layoffs.<\/p>\n The employee cuts also reached the channel motion of Oracle\u2019s NetSuite division, which has said to expect greater investments and focus on deal-level incentives, certification and training, program and other partner marketing and other channel budget areas over the next 12 months, according<\/a> to CRN\u2019s 2026 Partner Program Guide.<\/p>\n The Oracle layoffs have had a slow drumbeat throughout the month, with reports of coming job cuts first surfacing at the start<\/a> of March and Oracle increasing<\/a> its 2026 restructuring plan by an extra $500 million\u2013bringing the costs up to $2.1 billion\u2013before Oracle employees started posting publicly about layoffs on Tuesday.<\/p>\n Oracle solution providers who spoke with CRN about the layoffs were positive about fewer employees within the vendor potentially pushing more work out to the channel amid a rush of demand for a variety of Oracle products.<\/p>\n Rhos Dyke, founder and Oracle alliance practice lead for Acropolis Advisors, based in Manhattan Beach, Calif., said there is a \u201chuge\u201d opportunity for partners to move the 50 percent or more of the remaining Oracle licensees that are still on premises to the cloud. \u201cThat includes everything from database to applications, JD Edwards and all the products that Oracle owns,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Oracle isn\u2019t alone in pursuing layoffs in 2026 as the battle for AI dominance heats up. Other vendors that have announced or conducted layoffs so far this year include Atlassian, Amazon Web Services<\/a>, Autodesk<\/a> and Kaseya<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s more of what you need to know about the Oracle layoffs and where the vendor is putting less priority in its expenditures\u2013and potentially where AI is making inroads in automating once-manual tasks.<\/p>\n Oracle Layoffs Hit Go-To-Market Roles<\/p>\n Based on LinkedIn posts by former and outgoing Oracle employees who said they have been caught up in this round of layoffs, much of the job cuts hit roles in go-to-market, sales, customer success, marketing and partnership positions.<\/p>\n The employees not only worked on core Oracle products, but also its NetSuite cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) division and the Oracle Health electronic health record (EHR) unit that received a boost from the Cerner acquisition.<\/p>\n Oracle bought NetSuite in 2016 and Cerner<\/a> in 2022.<\/p>\n These cuts include a channel account manager<\/a> with NetSuite for about five years who oversaw \u201ca portfolio of 90\u2013150 mid-market and corporate customer accounts representing $10M+ in ARR within the NetSuite partner ecosystem,\u201d according to the employee\u2019s post and profile on LinkedIn.<\/p>\n A global strategic partnerships professional<\/a> who led \u201ca $1B+ global strategic partnership with Microsoft, owning a 360\u00b0 view of the relationship and ensuring measurable business impact across all business units\u201d was also among the cuts, according to his LinkedIn post and profile.<\/p>\n Other roles fitting that category include:<\/p>\n A senior sales executive<\/a> who has been with Oracle for about three years and with Cerner for about seven years before Oracle acquired Cerner in 2022; Engineering Roles Hit In Layoffs<\/p>\n Oracle made cuts to roles involved in engineering, site reliability and project delivery as well. The employees worked on enterprise engineering, SQL and other parts of the Oracle product portfolio.<\/p>\n Some of the displaced employees in this line of work include:<\/p>\n A principal IT support engineer<\/a> who\u2019s been with Oracle for about 12 years and whose work has included \u201cIT Support for greater Oracle as part of the Enterprise Engineering group\u201d and \u201chelp [managing] a project for dead-on-arrival laptops sent to new hires\u201d; Security Another Oracle Target Area<\/p>\n Oracle employees involved in security, threat evaluation and similar roles were also caught up in the job cuts.<\/p>\n Employees affected by the layoffs in this category include:<\/p>\n A senior director<\/a> of security evaluations with the company for about 13 years who \u201cled Oracle\u2019s global product security certification program, focused on supporting Oracle\u2019s cloud-first strategy\u201d; Oracle Partners Say Layoffs Could Push More Work To The Channel<\/p>\n Oracle partners said they see the enterprise cloud software powerhouse becoming more reliant on the channel in the wake of the layoffs that reports say impact thousands of employees.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is 1,000-percent good for the channel,\u201d said Rhos Dyke, founder and Oracle alliance practice lead for Acropolis Advisors, a Manhattan Beach, Calif.-based Oracle solution provider.<\/p>\n \u201cOracle direct sellers are going to be increasingly reliant on credible and capable partners that can deliver on the Oracle promise. I have been selling Oracle solutions for three decades, and the opportunity has never been bigger or better. I\u2019m never retiring. This layoff is only going to mean more opportunity for the channel. This makes Oracle leaner and meaner in a positive way. Those partners that abandoned Oracle 10 years ago should take another look. If they don\u2019t, they are missing a huge opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n A staff consultant<\/a> with the company for about five years whose work has included \u201ccollaborating with our clients to understand how NetSuite can best fit their unique wants, needs, and business requirements\u201d;
\n A customer success services professional<\/a> with Oracle about 27 years, on and off;
\n An account manager<\/a> with Oracle\u2019s NetSuite division for about two years;
\n A member<\/a> of the Oracle consulting staff with the vendor for about a year;
\n A senior director<\/a> and global head of developer community engagement with Oracle for about 16 years and, before that, nine years with Sun Microsystems, which Oracle bought in 2010;
\n A regional manager<\/a> who worked on business development and in the enterprise, government, education, energy and utilities space who led \u201ca high-performance team of SDRs focused on the Government, Education, and Energy & Utilities sectors, driving qualified pipeline through strategic outreach and collaborative engagement”;
\n An industry sales executive<\/a> with Oracle for about four years who worked on \u201cCloud ERP, EPM, CX, and SCM,\u201d and has experience in the \u201cHigh-Tech Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, and Transportation sectors\u201d;
\n A senior application sales manager<\/a> for Oracle\u2019s Human Capital Management (HCM) product with the company for about five years;
\n A customer success adviser<\/a> with Oracle and NetSuite for about 10 years who \u201cguided business executives through IT and software change management strategies and readiness\u201d;
\n A regional sales manager<\/a> for the channel with NetSuite for about 20 years who was \u201chelping Partners build their NetSuite businesses by laying the foundation of key business pillars\u201d with a \u201cconsistent track record for making partner organizations with competitive technologies or a micro-vertical focus, into top revenue performers\u201d;
\n A level two implementation consultant<\/a> with the company for about a year who focused on food and beverage clients and \u201cled enterprise system implementations, supported large-scale POS deployments, and partnered with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver scalable, client-focused solutions across multiple brands\u201d;
\n A sales executive<\/a> with Oracle for about 10 years who focused on sports and entertainment clients;
\n A director<\/a> of global industries go-to-market design and analytics with Oracle for about 23 years;
\n A regional sales director<\/a> with Oracle for about six years who managed \u201ca high performing team focused on selling ERP, iPaaS, and EPM solutions to Startups\/Small Businesses\u201d;
\n An ambassador<\/a> within the Center of Excellence who pursues \u201can assigned list of organizations currently using the product, which have been identified as under-served by other groups within our organization\u201d and has been with Oracle for about 14 years;
\n A NetSuite sales development representative<\/a> who worked in \u201cthe Products vertical, where I focus on manufacturing, distribution, and consumer goods organizations\u201d;
\n Senior regional sales director<\/a> with NetSuite for about seven years;
\n Senior value consultant<\/a> working at Netsuite for about four years;
\n A NetSuite senior account manager<\/a> who worked with the company for about four years, including with \u201ccurrent customers to ensure they receive the highest value possible from their NetSuite ERP solution.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n A software engineer<\/a> with Oracle for about three years who \u201chelped build and launch FreeSQL.com, Oracle\u2019s next-generation SQL learning platform, from the ground up\u201d;
\n A senior technical program manager<\/a> for product development who \u201creduced recurring and critical incidents by implementing company-wide incident lifecycle management, automating root-cause capture, and proactively mapping dependencies\u201d and \u201cled SRE and development teams to close operational gaps, enhance service reliability, and scale post-mortem and observability programs across global products\u201d;
\n A principal member<\/a> of the technical staff for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure [OCI] with Oracle for about 15 years who was \u201cresponsible for maintenance and reliability of the Email Delivery service within the Oracle Cloud (formerly Dyn Email Delivery)\u201d;
\n A principal software engineer<\/a> with Oracle for about six years;
\n An architect<\/a> with the Java Platform Group who worked with Oracle for about 13 years and most recently worked \u201con JVM Serviceability (S13Y) to further develop the capabilities of the JVM platform to provide industry leading technologies to enable debugging and performance analysis of JVM-based languages, frameworks, applications and (micro)services both in the cloud and on premise\u201d;
\n A senior principal technical program manager<\/a> with Oracle for about nine years who was \u201cidentifying and unlocking hundreds of millions of dollars in savings through efficiencies, cost avoidance, savings enablement, and the re-architecture of services\u201d;
\n A senior principal program manager<\/a> with Oracle about five years who worked on the Oracle Analytics content ecosystem;
\n An Oracle Cloud Infrastructure strategic partnership development product manager<\/a> with Oracle for about eight years and worked on increasing \u201cthe value customers received by strengthening and scaling the Oracle Marketplace and partnerships\u201d;
\n A senior software engineer<\/a> with Oracle about four years whose work included \u201cdriving cost optimization initiatives that saved millions of dollars by right-sizing resources\u201d and \u201cbuilding cloud regions & realms from scratch, involving 15+ components and managing complex dependencies\u201d;
\n A principal product marketing manager<\/a> for Oracle Customer Experience (CX) with the company for about 10 years who \u201cled product marketing for the Oracle Sales suite of products and solutions through product messaging, positioning, sales education and content creation\u201d;
\n A senior scrum master<\/a> with Oracle Health the past four years and with Cerner seven years before that;
\n A director<\/a> of engineering with Oracle for about five years who most recently led \u201cproduct engineering for Oracle Health’s clinical and data platform \u2014 120+ engineers, 12 managers, and 8+ products across the US, India, and Romania\u201d;
\n A software engineering manager<\/a> with Oracle about four years and Cerner about 12 years prior to that;
\n A principal site reliability engineer<\/a> with the \u201cOracle OCI DNS Control Plane service team\u201d with Oracle for more than 21 years whose work included \u201chelping launch Unbreakable Linux Network in time for Oracle OpenWorld 2006, to building a container publishing platform used across Oracle, to contributing as a technical leader on the next generation of OCI\u201d;
\n A product manager<\/a> for OCI strategic partnership development with Oracle for about eight years;
\n A project specialist<\/a> with Oracle for about three years and, before that, with Cerner about five years.<\/p>\n
\n A senior director<\/a> for product security with Oracle for about 20 years who worked on \u201coutpacing adversaries through strategy, innovation, and execution of the Offensive Security, Attack Research & Development, Red Team, and Cryptography programs under OCI’s Cloud Security Organization\u201d;
\n A principal security architect<\/a> with Oracle for about nine years and led \u201cadoption of cloud services (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) for Security, Risk and Compliance\u201d;
\n A senior security researcher<\/a> with Oracle for about four years who worked on the \u201cEthical Hacking Team, Code Assessments Team\u201d;
\n A principal threat investigator and security engineer<\/a> with Oracle for about 20 years who worked on \u201cthreat intelligence investigations, complemented by security engineering techniques, to craft comprehensive data sheets aimed at generating actionable insights for Oracle and its affiliated partners\u201d;<\/p>\n