Updated August 3, 2026

24 open positions

Shell Scripting Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 24+ shell scripting jobs at companies offering best places to work and unlimited PTO—full pay and a better work-life balance. 9 new this week. Hiring companies include CERN, Esri, and ServiceNow.

Jobs

New This Week

10+

Companies

Updated Daily

Senior Software Engineer - Radiology

Washington University in St. Louis

RemoteUSA

61 · GoodCompressed week

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

12d

Clover Health

RemoteUSA

61 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$160k – $208k

Site Reliability Engineer

10d

Arista Networks

RemoteIreland

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

QA Engineer - Core Database

3mo

ClickHouse

RemoteIndia

64 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Software Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure

19d

Twilio

RemoteUSA

60 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$117k – $155k

Technical Support Engineer

1mo

RemoteUSA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$124k – $255k

Manager, Application IT Support

17d

Experian

RemoteUSA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$116k – $208k

Field Service Specialist

Thales

HybridVancouver, Canada

89 · Excellent4 day week80% pay

Field Service Specialist

Thales

OnsiteToronto, Canada

89 · Excellent4 day week80% pay

L2 Engineer

3mo

Purple Computing

HybridBristol, UK

88 · Excellent4 day week100% pay

Research Specialist D

University of Pennsylvania

HybridPhiladelphia, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week$67k – $77k

Computer Security Architect

CERN

HybridGeneva, Switzerland

64 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTOCHF 5k – CHF 6k

Hardware Support Engineer

CERN

HybridGeneva, Switzerland

64 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTOCHF 5k – CHF 6k

Hardware Support Engineer

CERN

HybridGeneva, Switzerland

64 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTOCHF 5k – CHF 6k

Python Engineer

Graphcore

HybridGdańsk, Poland

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTOzł 165k – zł 223k

Platform Owner Database

Sanofi

HybridBarcelona, Spain

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Senior Observability Engineer

10d

Experian

OnsiteHyderabad, India

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Manager, Partner Product and Delivery

3mo

Spotify

OnsiteMiami, USA

64 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO$71k – $101k

Sr. Partner Support Engineer

27d

HybridDublin, Ireland

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO€79k – €139k

Staff Software Engineer, Computer Service

13d

SoFi

HybridSeattle, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$221k – $243k

Python Engineer

16d

Graphcore

HybridBristol +2 more

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Oracle Apps DBA Consultant

24d

Version 1

HybridLondon +5 more

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

DevOps Engineer

2mo

Five9

HybridBengaluru, India

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

DevOps Engineer

2mo

Five9

HybridChennai, India

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

Employers hiring for Shell Scripting on this page include CERN, Esri, and ServiceNow. Shell Scripting roles appear most frequently in engineering, data, and platform teams at companies that have adopted a reduced-hours schedule. Each listing indicates the seniority level and whether Shell Scripting is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Shell Scripting roles span the full seniority range — we list 31 open roles requiring Shell Scripting across entry-level, mid-level, senior, lead, and staff/principal positions. Senior and above tend to dominate because employers offering reduced-hours schedules often lean toward experienced individual contributors who can deliver consistently in fewer hours. Filter by level in the sidebar to narrow the list above.

Lead with measurable outcomes over time spent — Shell Scripting hiring managers at reduced-hours companies care about delivered value, not hours worked. Highlight projects where you shipped at a steady cadence, collaborated asynchronously, or reduced engineering toil through automation or tooling. Include concrete metrics (latency improvements, adoption numbers, cost reductions) rather than vague duty descriptions. Expand listings above to see the exact framing each employer uses in their job descriptions.

For the full-pay schedules here — 4-day weeks and 9-day fortnights — yes: you keep a full-time salary for a shorter week. Part-time and pro-rata roles instead scale pay to hours, and each listing makes the arrangement clear. Shell Scripting roles in tech and data typically command premium rates at both reduced-hours and traditional employers; specific ranges depend on seniority, location, and sub-specialty (e.g. backend vs frontend, infra vs ML). Individual listings above show exact bands where the employer publishes them.

Depends on the role, but Shell Scripting candidates who also demonstrate async communication, clean documentation, and cross-functional collaboration are typically strong fits for reduced-hours employers — those companies rely on written-first communication and high-context handoffs to operate on a compressed schedule. Technical-adjacent skills vary by stack. Browse the top skills shown in the sidebar to see which tags co-occur most often with Shell Scripting on current listings.