diff --git a/src/commands/get-job-artifacts.yml b/src/commands/get-job-artifacts.yml
index 7865493..b5e555c 100644
--- a/src/commands/get-job-artifacts.yml
+++ b/src/commands/get-job-artifacts.yml
@@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ parameters:
     type: integer
     default: 10
     description: Number of parallel downloads
+  unzip:
+    type: boolean
+    default: true
+    description: Unzip any tarballs in the downloaded artifacts
 steps:
   - run:
       name: Downloading artifacts
@@ -30,4 +34,5 @@ steps:
         PRESERVE_PATHS: << parameters.preserve-paths >>
         TARGET_ARTIFACT_PATTERN: << parameters.path-pattern >>
         PROCESSES: << parameters.processes >>
+        UNZIP: << parameters.unzip >>
       command: << include(scripts/get-job-artifacts.sh) >>
diff --git a/src/commands/store_compressed_artifacts.yml b/src/commands/store_compressed_artifacts.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1ff9501
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/commands/store_compressed_artifacts.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+description: >
+  Store artifacts as a gzip compressed tarball
+
+  This can be a performance improvement when storing a large number of files or very large but highly compressible files such as logs.
+parameters:
+  tarball-name:
+    type: string
+    description: Name for the compressed tarball, must be unique within this job
+  path:
+    type: string
+    description: Path to file or directory to store
+steps:
+  - run:
+      name: Compressing << parameters.tarball-name >>
+      command: tar -czf << parameters.tarball-name >>.tar.gz << parameters.path >>
+  - store_artifacts:
+      name: Store << parameters.tarball-name >>
+      path: << parameters.tarball-name >>.tar.gz
diff --git a/src/scripts/get-job-artifacts.sh b/src/scripts/get-job-artifacts.sh
index 60c8850..4b88622 100755
--- a/src/scripts/get-job-artifacts.sh
+++ b/src/scripts/get-job-artifacts.sh
@@ -72,6 +72,8 @@ get_artifacts_for_job() {
   fi
   local tmp_config
   tmp_config=$(mktemp)
+  local tmp_zipped
+  tmp_zipped=$(mktemp)
   while read -r ARTIFACT
   do
     # shellcheck disable=SC2086
@@ -92,9 +94,17 @@ get_artifacts_for_job() {
       echo "url $URL"
       echo "output \"$OUTPUT_PATH\""
     } >> "$tmp_config"
+    if [[ "$FILE_PATH" == *.tar.gz ]]; then
+      echo "$OUTPUT_PATH" >> "$tmp_zipped"
+    fi
   done <<< "$REQUIRED_ARTIFACTS"
   curl -K "$tmp_config" -s -L --retry 3 --retry-all-errors --create-dirs -H "Circle-Token: $CIRCLE_TOKEN" --parallel --parallel-immediate --parallel-max "$PROCESSES"
   rm "$tmp_config"
+  if [ "$UNZIP" = 1 ] && [ -s "$tmp_zipped" ]; then
+    echo "Unzipping files:"
+    cat "$tmp_zipped"
+    xargs -n 1 tar -xzf < "$tmp_zipped"
+  fi
 }
 
 if [ -n "$TARGET_PATH" ]; then