Revealed: Some of the Oracle cloud roles hit hardest in layoffs

A leaked document has provided the clearest picture yet of how Oracle’s latest layoffs have reorganized its vitally important cloud business.

Oracle began a new round of layoffs last week as the tech giant continues to cut costs amid an expensive AI infrastructure push.

Business Insider obtained a previously unreported document showing the scale and scope of the cuts at Oracle’s cloud infrastructure division.

It shows the job titles and ages of 546 employees in Oracle’s America Cloud Infrastructure organization who were laid off, representing around 7.6% of the 7,185 employees listed.

Of those, managers, engineers, software developers, and workers in the company’s data center maintenance and servicing division were most affected.

Oracle said in the document that the information was provided to comply with federal age discrimination laws.

It provides an insight into the type of roles the company is eliminating in its second major round of job cuts this year.

Oracle has not said how many people it laid off in total last week.

The document states that it includes all employees in Oracle America’s Cloud Infrastructure organization eligible to receive severance benefits.

Business Insider could not determine if the document listed all the employees laid off from Oracle’s cloud infrastructure org.

The company did not respond to a request for comment.

Oracle previously disclosed that its workforce declined by 21,000 employees, or 13%, in the 2026 fiscal year ended May 31, and the company said it had 141,000 employees before the most recent round of layoffs.

Oracle’s cloud infrastructure organization is one of the most important parts of its business, with the company reporting in its most recent earnings that quarterly revenues from the division had soared 121% year over year.

Of the employees listed in the document, the cloud org roles hit hardest by the layoffs were software developer III, with 57 workers made redundant, followed by program manager IV and principal core infrastructure engineer.

Software developers were heavily affected, according to the doc, making up around 17% of the roles cut.

Developer roles have long been predicted to be especially vulnerable to AI, especially as AI tools have become increasingly proficient at coding, with some forecasting that Big Tech companies could eventually cut as many as 50% of their engineers.

So far, that scenario has not come to pass, despite a growing number of companies citing AI in their layoff announcements — and recent data from job site Indeed suggests there has been a modest increase in software engineering job postings.

Oracle’s layoffs also fell heavily on the company’s data center support services, which provide maintenance and tech support for the company’s data centers.

Forty-one employees from Oracle’s data center support services were selected for termination, around 7.5% of the total, including the vice president of the division and two senior directors.

The layoffs come as Oracle continues to double down on its investments in AI data centers.

The company has racked up tens of billions of dollars in debt and expects to spend $90-$95 billion this year on building new data centers as it bets demand for AI will continue to surge.

The recent layoffs also eliminated 128 roles containing the word “manager” across the cloud infrastructure division, according to Business Insider’s analysis of the document, around 23% of the total cuts.

Program manager was among the roles that saw the highest number of terminations, with 61 employees eliminated in total.

It comes as other Big Tech companies — including Meta, Snap, Coinbase, and Block — have increasingly cut management roles to pursue “flatter” organizations with fewer layers of bureaucracy.

Managers were by far the hardest-hit group when Meta cut 10% of its workforce earlier this year, although Business Insider recently reported that the company had begun asking some employees in its Applied AI division if they want to take on management roles again.

An analysis of the Oracle layoff document also showed how the company’s cuts in this group fell more heavily on older, experienced workers.

The majority of employees affected in Oracle’s cloud infrastructure division were over 40, Business Insider’s analysis found, and around 16% were 60 or over.

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