diff --git a/flink-state-backends/flink-statebackend-rocksdb/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/contrib/streaming/state/RocksDBKeyedStateBackendBuilder.java b/flink-state-backends/flink-statebackend-rocksdb/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/contrib/streaming/state/RocksDBKeyedStateBackendBuilder.java
index 246677d219c59..907d828eb5691 100644
--- a/flink-state-backends/flink-statebackend-rocksdb/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/contrib/streaming/state/RocksDBKeyedStateBackendBuilder.java
+++ b/flink-state-backends/flink-statebackend-rocksdb/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/contrib/streaming/state/RocksDBKeyedStateBackendBuilder.java
@@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ public class RocksDBKeyedStateBackendBuilder<K> extends AbstractKeyedStateBacken
 
     private RocksDB injectedTestDB; // for testing
     private ColumnFamilyHandle injectedDefaultColumnFamilyHandle; // for testing
+    private RocksDBStateUploader injectRocksDBStateUploader; // for testing
 
     public RocksDBKeyedStateBackendBuilder(
             String operatorIdentifier,
@@ -228,6 +229,9 @@ RocksDBKeyedStateBackendBuilder<K> setNativeMetricOptions(
 
     RocksDBKeyedStateBackendBuilder<K> setNumberOfTransferingThreads(
             int numberOfTransferingThreads) {
+        Preconditions.checkState(
+                injectRocksDBStateUploader == null,
+                "numberOfTransferingThreads can be set only when injectRocksDBStateUploader is null.");
         this.numberOfTransferingThreads = numberOfTransferingThreads;
         return this;
     }
@@ -238,6 +242,18 @@ RocksDBKeyedStateBackendBuilder<K> setWriteBatchSize(long writeBatchSize) {
         return this;
     }
 
+    RocksDBKeyedStateBackendBuilder<K> setRocksDBStateUploader(
+            RocksDBStateUploader rocksDBStateUploader) {
+        Preconditions.checkState(
+                injectRocksDBStateUploader == null, "rocksDBStateUploader can be only set once");
+        Preconditions.checkState(
+                numberOfTransferingThreads
+                        == RocksDBOptions.CHECKPOINT_TRANSFER_THREAD_NUM.defaultValue(),
+                "RocksDBStateUploader can only be set if numberOfTransferingThreads has not been manually set.");
+        this.injectRocksDBStateUploader = rocksDBStateUploader;
+        return this;
+    }
+
     private static void checkAndCreateDirectory(File directory) throws IOException {
         if (directory.exists()) {
             if (!directory.isDirectory()) {
@@ -497,6 +513,10 @@ private RocksDBRestoreOperation getRocksDBRestoreOperation(
             long lastCompletedCheckpointId) {
         RocksDBSnapshotStrategyBase<K, ?> checkpointSnapshotStrategy;
         if (enableIncrementalCheckpointing) {
+            RocksDBStateUploader stateUploader =
+                    injectRocksDBStateUploader == null
+                            ? new RocksDBStateUploader(numberOfTransferingThreads)
+                            : injectRocksDBStateUploader;
             checkpointSnapshotStrategy =
                     new RocksIncrementalSnapshotStrategy<>(
                             db,
@@ -510,8 +530,8 @@ private RocksDBRestoreOperation getRocksDBRestoreOperation(
                             instanceBasePath,
                             backendUID,
                             materializedSstFiles,
-                            lastCompletedCheckpointId,
-                            numberOfTransferingThreads);
+                            stateUploader,
+                            lastCompletedCheckpointId);
         } else {
             checkpointSnapshotStrategy =
                     new RocksFullSnapshotStrategy<>(
diff --git a/flink-state-backends/flink-statebackend-rocksdb/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/contrib/streaming/state/RocksDBStateDataTransfer.java b/flink-state-backends/flink-statebackend-rocksdb/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/contrib/streaming/state/RocksDBStateDataTransfer.java
index 616f1676fbac2..a9712a751374d 100644
--- a/flink-state-backends/flink-statebackend-rocksdb/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/contrib/streaming/state/RocksDBStateDataTransfer.java
+++ b/flink-state-backends/flink-statebackend-rocksdb/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/contrib/streaming/state/RocksDBStateDataTransfer.java
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@
 
 package org.apache.flink.contrib.streaming.state;
 
+import org.apache.flink.runtime.util.ExecutorThreadFactory;
+
 import java.io.Closeable;
 import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
 import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
@@ -30,7 +32,9 @@ class RocksDBStateDataTransfer implements Closeable {
 
     RocksDBStateDataTransfer(int threadNum) {
         if (threadNum > 1) {
-            executorService = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(threadNum);
+            executorService =
+                    Executors.newFixedThreadPool(
+                            threadNum, new ExecutorThreadFactory("Flink-RocksDBStateDataTransfer"));
         } else {
             executorService = newDirectExecutorService();
         }
diff --git a/flink-state-backends/flink-statebackend-rocksdb/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/contrib/streaming/state/snapshot/RocksIncrementalSnapshotStrategy.java b/flink-state-backends/flink-statebackend-rocksdb/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/contrib/streaming/state/snapshot/RocksIncrementalSnapshotStrategy.java
index 99f0b6f4f4c97..73d9bf090bda3 100644
--- a/flink-state-backends/flink-statebackend-rocksdb/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/contrib/streaming/state/snapshot/RocksIncrementalSnapshotStrategy.java
+++ b/flink-state-backends/flink-statebackend-rocksdb/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/contrib/streaming/state/snapshot/RocksIncrementalSnapshotStrategy.java
@@ -121,8 +121,8 @@ public RocksIncrementalSnapshotStrategy(
             @Nonnull File instanceBasePath,
             @Nonnull UUID backendUID,
             @Nonnull SortedMap<Long, Set<StateHandleID>> materializedSstFiles,
-            long lastCompletedCheckpointId,
-            int numberOfTransferingThreads) {
+            @Nonnull RocksDBStateUploader rocksDBStateUploader,
+            long lastCompletedCheckpointId) {
 
         super(
                 DESCRIPTION,
@@ -137,8 +137,8 @@ public RocksIncrementalSnapshotStrategy(
         this.instanceBasePath = instanceBasePath;
         this.backendUID = backendUID;
         this.materializedSstFiles = materializedSstFiles;
+        this.stateUploader = rocksDBStateUploader;
         this.lastCompletedCheckpointId = lastCompletedCheckpointId;
-        this.stateUploader = new RocksDBStateUploader(numberOfTransferingThreads);
         this.localDirectoryName = backendUID.toString().replaceAll("[\\-]", "");
     }
 
diff --git a/flink-state-backends/flink-statebackend-rocksdb/src/test/java/org/apache/flink/contrib/streaming/state/EmbeddedRocksDBStateBackendTest.java b/flink-state-backends/flink-statebackend-rocksdb/src/test/java/org/apache/flink/contrib/streaming/state/EmbeddedRocksDBStateBackendTest.java
index b2fba07fae33d..8c13466c7cbe1 100644
--- a/flink-state-backends/flink-statebackend-rocksdb/src/test/java/org/apache/flink/contrib/streaming/state/EmbeddedRocksDBStateBackendTest.java
+++ b/flink-state-backends/flink-statebackend-rocksdb/src/test/java/org/apache/flink/contrib/streaming/state/EmbeddedRocksDBStateBackendTest.java
@@ -137,6 +137,7 @@ public static List<Object[]> modes() {
     private String dbPath;
     private RocksDB db = null;
     private ColumnFamilyHandle defaultCFHandle = null;
+    private RocksDBStateUploader rocksDBStateUploader = null;
     private final RocksDBResourceContainer optionsContainer = new RocksDBResourceContainer();
 
     public void prepareRocksDB() throws Exception {
@@ -210,10 +211,9 @@ public void setupRocksKeyedStateBackend() throws Exception {
         testStreamFactory.setBlockerLatch(blocker);
         testStreamFactory.setWaiterLatch(waiter);
         testStreamFactory.setAfterNumberInvocations(10);
-
         prepareRocksDB();
 
-        keyedStateBackend =
+        RocksDBKeyedStateBackendBuilder keyedStateBackendBuilder =
                 RocksDBTestUtils.builderForTestDB(
                                 TEMP_FOLDER
                                         .newFolder(), // this is not used anyways because the DB is
@@ -222,8 +222,17 @@ public void setupRocksKeyedStateBackend() throws Exception {
                                 spy(db),
                                 defaultCFHandle,
                                 optionsContainer.getColumnOptions())
-                        .setEnableIncrementalCheckpointing(enableIncrementalCheckpointing)
-                        .build();
+                        .setEnableIncrementalCheckpointing(enableIncrementalCheckpointing);
+
+        if (enableIncrementalCheckpointing) {
+            rocksDBStateUploader =
+                    spy(
+                            new RocksDBStateUploader(
+                                    RocksDBOptions.CHECKPOINT_TRANSFER_THREAD_NUM.defaultValue()));
+            keyedStateBackendBuilder.setRocksDBStateUploader(rocksDBStateUploader);
+        }
+
+        keyedStateBackend = keyedStateBackendBuilder.build();
 
         testState1 =
                 keyedStateBackend.getPartitionedState(
@@ -367,6 +376,7 @@ public void testReleasingSnapshotAfterBackendClosed() throws Exception {
             keyedStateBackend.dispose();
             keyedStateBackend = null;
         }
+        verifyRocksDBStateUploaderClosed();
     }
 
     @Test
@@ -385,6 +395,7 @@ public void testDismissingSnapshot() throws Exception {
             this.keyedStateBackend.dispose();
             this.keyedStateBackend = null;
         }
+        verifyRocksDBStateUploaderClosed();
     }
 
     @Test
@@ -412,6 +423,7 @@ public void testDismissingSnapshotNotRunnable() throws Exception {
             this.keyedStateBackend.dispose();
             this.keyedStateBackend = null;
         }
+        verifyRocksDBStateUploaderClosed();
     }
 
     @Test
@@ -448,6 +460,7 @@ public void testCompletingSnapshot() throws Exception {
             this.keyedStateBackend.dispose();
             this.keyedStateBackend = null;
         }
+        verifyRocksDBStateUploaderClosed();
     }
 
     @Test
@@ -485,6 +498,7 @@ public void testCancelRunningSnapshot() throws Exception {
             this.keyedStateBackend.dispose();
             this.keyedStateBackend = null;
         }
+        verifyRocksDBStateUploaderClosed();
     }
 
     @Test
@@ -641,6 +655,12 @@ private void verifyRocksObjectsReleased() {
         assertEquals(true, keyedStateBackend.isDisposed());
     }
 
+    private void verifyRocksDBStateUploaderClosed() {
+        if (enableIncrementalCheckpointing) {
+            verify(rocksDBStateUploader, times(1)).close();
+        }
+    }
+
     private static class AcceptAllFilter implements IOFileFilter {
         @Override
         public boolean accept(File file) {