diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index 4912d6480..0ce45fc65 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 ## Unreleased
 ### Bug Fixes
 * Fixed a bug in handling file rename error in distributed/network file systems when the server succeeds but client returns error. The bug can cause CURRENT file to point to non-existing MANIFEST file, thus DB cannot be opened.
+* Fixed a bug where ingested files were written with incorrect boundary key metadata. In rare cases this could have led to a level's files being wrongly ordered and queries for the boundary keys returning wrong results.
 * Fixed a data race between insertion into memtables and the retrieval of the DB properties `rocksdb.cur-size-active-mem-table`, `rocksdb.cur-size-all-mem-tables`, and `rocksdb.size-all-mem-tables`.
 
 ## 6.20.0 (04/16/2021)
diff --git a/db/external_sst_file_basic_test.cc b/db/external_sst_file_basic_test.cc
index f61f78df0..a11a44b99 100644
--- a/db/external_sst_file_basic_test.cc
+++ b/db/external_sst_file_basic_test.cc
@@ -1542,6 +1542,44 @@ TEST_F(ExternalSSTFileBasicTest, OverlappingFiles) {
   ASSERT_EQ(2, NumTableFilesAtLevel(0));
 }
 
+TEST_F(ExternalSSTFileBasicTest, IngestFileAfterDBPut) {
+  // Repro https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/issues/6245.
+  // Flush three files to L0. Ingest one more file to trigger L0->L1 compaction
+  // via trivial move. The bug happened when L1 files were incorrectly sorted
+  // resulting in an old value for "k" returned by `Get()`.
+  Options options = CurrentOptions();
+
+  ASSERT_OK(Put("k", "a"));
+  Flush();
+  ASSERT_OK(Put("k", "a"));
+  Flush();
+  ASSERT_OK(Put("k", "a"));
+  Flush();
+  SstFileWriter sst_file_writer(EnvOptions(), options);
+
+  // Current file size should be 0 after sst_file_writer init and before open a
+  // file.
+  ASSERT_EQ(sst_file_writer.FileSize(), 0);
+
+  std::string file1 = sst_files_dir_ + "file1.sst";
+  ASSERT_OK(sst_file_writer.Open(file1));
+  ASSERT_OK(sst_file_writer.Put("k", "b"));
+
+  ExternalSstFileInfo file1_info;
+  Status s = sst_file_writer.Finish(&file1_info);
+  ASSERT_OK(s) << s.ToString();
+
+  // Current file size should be non-zero after success write.
+  ASSERT_GT(sst_file_writer.FileSize(), 0);
+
+  IngestExternalFileOptions ifo;
+  s = db_->IngestExternalFile({file1}, ifo);
+  ASSERT_OK(s);
+  ASSERT_OK(dbfull()->TEST_WaitForCompact());
+
+  ASSERT_EQ(Get("k"), "b");
+}
+
 INSTANTIATE_TEST_CASE_P(ExternalSSTFileBasicTest, ExternalSSTFileBasicTest,
                         testing::Values(std::make_tuple(true, true),
                                         std::make_tuple(true, false),
diff --git a/db/external_sst_file_ingestion_job.cc b/db/external_sst_file_ingestion_job.cc
index 761b2419f..ff5450138 100644
--- a/db/external_sst_file_ingestion_job.cc
+++ b/db/external_sst_file_ingestion_job.cc
@@ -367,9 +367,32 @@ Status ExternalSstFileIngestionJob::Run() {
           super_version, force_global_seqno, cfd_->ioptions()->compaction_style,
           last_seqno, &f, &assigned_seqno);
     }
+
+    // Modify the smallest/largest internal key to include the sequence number
+    // that we just learned. Only overwrite sequence number zero. There could
+    // be a nonzero sequence number already to indicate a range tombstone's
+    // exclusive endpoint.
+    ParsedInternalKey smallest_parsed, largest_parsed;
+    if (status.ok()) {
+      status = ParseInternalKey(*f.smallest_internal_key.rep(),
+                                &smallest_parsed, false /* log_err_key */);
+    }
+    if (status.ok()) {
+      status = ParseInternalKey(*f.largest_internal_key.rep(), &largest_parsed,
+                                false /* log_err_key */);
+    }
     if (!status.ok()) {
       return status;
     }
+    if (smallest_parsed.sequence == 0) {
+      UpdateInternalKey(f.smallest_internal_key.rep(), assigned_seqno,
+                        smallest_parsed.type);
+    }
+    if (largest_parsed.sequence == 0) {
+      UpdateInternalKey(f.largest_internal_key.rep(), assigned_seqno,
+                        largest_parsed.type);
+    }
+
     status = AssignGlobalSeqnoForIngestedFile(&f, assigned_seqno);
     TEST_SYNC_POINT_CALLBACK("ExternalSstFileIngestionJob::Run",
                              &assigned_seqno);