Bash Team Lead

What you'll do

You review AI-written shell scripts the way a careful sysadmin would, then do the same for the people producing the training data. In scripts you look for correctness and safety: poor quoting, non-portable syntax, missing error handling, hallucinated flags and destructive operations. You flag credential exposure, injection risks and misleading production guidance.

The lead part is people work: spot-checking trainers' items, handling questions about pipelines, permissions and portability on Discord, keeping the Bash style guides and calibration tasks, and running onboarding.

Who fits

• A bachelor's or master's in computer science, software engineering, IT or systems administration, or equivalent professional experience
• Three or more years of Bash and shell scripting, Linux or Unix, automation, DevOps, sysadmin or CI/CD work
• Solid fundamentals: quoting, conditionals, loops, functions, pipes, redirection, exit codes, signals, permissions, POSIX portability
• Familiarity with grep, awk, sed, find, curl, jq, cron, SSH, Git and Docker is preferred
• Experience leading remote teams is strongly preferred

AI training, annotation, LLM evaluation, code QA or rubric-based review is a strong plus.

The role is open to applicants in the United States only.

What it pays

SME's listing says up to $65 an hour with no floor. That is well below its Android ($110) and Angular ($90) review roles, which reflects the lead-role structure and the narrower Bash scope rather than a lower bar. The listing does not state how or when you are paid; the company page covers SME's Deel payout cycle.

Worth knowing

Good:

• Safety review of shell scripts is concrete, testable work
• Combines code review and people leadership
• Clear list of the defects to catch

Less good:

• Selection includes an AI interview, a domain-specific task and a recruiter interview
• No immediate project is attached
• US only, and up to $65 is a ceiling

About this listing

Posted on SME Careers (sme.careers), where SuperAnnotate hires subject matter experts, and read on 27 October 2026. The board gives no posting date. The duties, requirements and pay are SME's own text; the comparisons and commentary are ours. The interview, Deel contract, bootcamp and time tracking are covered on the company page rather than repeated here. The ad says selection involves an AI interview, a domain-specific task and an interview with a recruiter. The ad says there is no immediate project for this role; qualified applicants are among the first contacted when relevant work opens, which also gives access to future projects in the expert network. See SuperAnnotate.