Oracle is cutting 491 employees in Washington state, affecting workers at two Seattle offices and remote employees. The layoffs are part of a larger plan to cut thousands of jobs across the company to fund the deployment of new data centers. The job cuts, which take effect on June 1, affect more than 230 software developers across multiple seniority levels and an additional 48 employees with the title of software development. The company attributes these job reductions to AI-driven efficiencies within the organization. This is the latest in a series of Oracle job reductions, with 161 workers laid off in August and 101 in October.