Oracle is laying off 359 employees in Washington state — its second significant job cuts this year — according to a filing Wednesday with the state Employment Security Department.
The cuts affect remote employees across Washington state as well as on-site staff at Oracle’s downtown Seattle facilities, located in the Russell Investments Center on 2nd Avenue and at 2025 5th Ave.
Oracle noted in its Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, signed by HR Senior VP Anje Dodson, that its “Seattle sites are not closing.” Impacted employees received notice Monday and their last day will be Nov. 13.
The cuts heavily impact technical engineering and management roles across the enterprise software giant. According to the filing, affected titles include dozens of software developers, core infrastructure and platform software engineers, program managers, and site reliability engineers. Senior leadership was also affected by the reduction, with notices sent to multiple vice presidents, directors of engineering and product management, and principal data scientists.
The cuts are part of broader nationwide layoffs at Oracle. Business Insider reported this week that the tech giant is trimming payroll and raising capital as it racks up tens of billions of dollars in debt to fund massive AI data center infrastructure investments.
Internal emails sent to affected employees cited a “broader organizational change,” coming on the heels of a regulatory filing where Oracle explicitly noted that the deployment of AI technologies across its operations has resulted in workforce reductions. Oracle’s global headcount fell by roughly 21,000 employees, or 13%, over the past fiscal year.
The new round of layoffs comes just six months after Oracle eliminated 491 jobs in Washington state in March. That reduction similarly targeted engineering talent — sweeping up more than 230 software developers alongside senior directors and vice presidents — as part of an initial wave of cuts tied to the company’s shift toward AI-led software development.
Combined, the two workforce reductions have slashed 850 Oracle positions in the state this year.
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